Jacob Silverman

New York

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

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The Shady Financial Past of a Major Trump Crypto Investor

1 week ago | thenation.com | Jacob Silverman

Economy / June 17, 2025 The Shady Financial Past of a Major Trump Crypto InvestorAndrei Grachev, an early booster of a Trump crypto offering, has cycled through several alleged investment scams and was convicted on fraud charges in Russia.
Donald Trump, dentistas multimillonarios y bolsas de nicotina: tres días en la mayor fiesta del bitcoin del mundo

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.es | Jacob Silverman |Ramón Armero

"¡Silencio en plató!", fueron las palabras de Brock Pierce, el antiguo actor infantil que se ha acabado convirtiendo en un destacado empresario de criptomonedas. Un centenar de personas estaban sentadas en diversos estados de conversación y embriaguez en un Maggiano's de Las Vegas que DNA Fund, una empresa fundada por Pierce, había alquilado durante varios días con motivo de la Conferencia Bitcoin 2025, celebrada la semana pasada.
Trump, billionaire dentists, and bottomless Zyns: Three days at the world's biggest bitcoin party

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Jacob Silverman |Henry Blodget

Quiet on set, people!" said Brock Pierce, the former child actor who grew up to be a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. A hundred or so people sat in various states of conversation and intoxication at a Las Vegas Maggiano's that DNA Fund, a Pierce-founded venture, had rented out for several days during the official Bitcoin 2025 Conference last week.
How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector

3 weeks ago | irishnews.com | Jacob Silverman |Patrick McGee

Book review:Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest CompanyBy Patrick McGeePublished by Simon & SchusterAS the world’s first $3 trillion publicly traded company, Apple is an unusual kind of political actor - endlessly resourced, capable of shaping a nation’s industrial policy but still buffeted by the great forces of statecraft, of history. Apple may have the gross domestic product of a small nation, but it doesn’t have an army; it must play by others’ rules.
Three Coin Monte

1 month ago | prospect.org | Jacob Silverman

This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Silverman

How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector (washingtonpost.com) How Apple’s lucrative bet on China boosted the country’s tech sector By Jacob Silverman 2025052414000000 As the world's first $3 trillion publicly traded company, Apple is an unusual kind of political actor — endlessly resourced, capable of shaping a nation's industrial policy but still buffeted by the great forces of statecraft, of history.
hostile architecture of internet and social media is driving us crazy

1 month ago | afr.com | Jacob Silverman

Jacob SilvermanMay 23, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In Novi, Michigan, an apparently delusional woman staying with her 20-year-old cat at a cheap hotel has a message for the world. What it is, I am not exactly sure, but I have been following her attempts for weeks while she posts updates on X and YouTube.
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

1 month ago | bookshop.org | Jacob Silverman

A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives. From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who encourage the political far right around the world, the Silicon Valley techno-utopian dream has curdled.
Rise of the Crypto Keepers

1 month ago | thenation.com | Jacob Silverman

Feature / May 7, 2025 Rise of the Crypto KeepersThe promoters of scam currency spent more money than any other group in 2024. They’re now realizing a massive return on investment in Donald Trump’s White House.
Trump's Crypto Foray May Be the Biggest Financial Scandal in Presidential History

2 months ago | airmail.news | Jacob Silverman

On inauguration weekend, the president and First Lady launched the $TRUMP and $MELANIA tokens, a pair of crypto-currencies that had little to distinguish them except their association with the first family—worthless meme coins, in other words. (Or, to the less charitably minded, “shitcoins.”) But because it was Trump, the tokens briefly exploded in value, accumulating billions of dollars in market capitalization, at least on paper, before the inevitable crash.