Michael del Castillo

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Writing about #borderlessness. Senior editor at @Forbes; co-founder, Literary Manhattan; co-founder Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers; member Pen America
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BREAKING: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to the OpenSats non-profit, half of which will be used to fund Nostr, a new social protocol that lets developers easily integrate with bitcoin: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/04/jack-dorsey-donates-10-million-to-fund-bitcoin-development/?sh=54207a202d64
Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million To Turn Bitcoin Into ‘The Native Currency Of The Internet’

The Twitter founder has donated the funds to the OpenSats non-profit, half of which will be used to fund Nostr, a new social protocol that lets social network developers easily integrate with bitcoin.

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VIDEO: Everything you need to know about Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter rival Bluesky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD-y9LX1U3U via @Forbes
Everything You Need To Know About Jack Dorsey-Backed Twitter Rival

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I LOVE the disclosure on this Mariblock article: "Digital assets such as bitcoin are seen as competitors to central bank money. We consider it worthwhile to inform our audience of the state of their local currencies." https://www.mariblock.com/ethiopia-and-kenya-join-ghana-seeking-imf-bailout/ (I'm an unpaid advisor)
Ethiopia and Kenya join Ghana seeking IMF bailout

The three African countries are requesting loans to restore financial stability, worsened by the covid-19 pandemic and global supply chain crunch.

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After nearly a decade of experimenting with bitcoin Muneeb Ali's co-creation stacks ($STX) passed the billion-dollar mark after a 98% jump this week. I spoke with him to get the back story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/03/17/bitcoin-layer-2-creator-dishes-on-the-origin-of-the-crypto-thats-jumped-98-in-a-week/?sh=1a141c7a6c2f via @Forbes
Bitcoin Layer 2 Creator Dishes On The Origin Of The Crypto That’s Jumped 98% In A Week

Princeton PhD and Pakistan native, Muneeb Ali, explains how growing up around hyperinflation led him to building new smart contract functionality into bitcoin.

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EXCLUSIVE behind the scene's look at how Germany's financial capital will reverse-launder the $46 million seized yesterday from a $3 billion money laundering service: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2023/03/16/legal-money-laundering-how-a-german-bank-is-cleaning-tainted-bitcoin-and-other-dirty-cryptos/?sh=6aea034225de via @Forbes
Legal Money Laundering: How A German Bank Is Cleaning Tainted Bitcoin And Other Dirty Cryptos

Blacklisted Bitcoin? Frankfurt’s Bankhaus Scheich has a budding business cleaning crypto and getting it back into circulation.

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This was FASCINATING to work on. See how Germany's financial capital legally cleans millions of dollars worth of seized bitcoin before returning it to the wild: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2023/03/16/legal-money-laundering-how-a-german-bank-is-cleaning-tainted-bitcoin-and-other-dirty-cryptos/?sh=6aea034225de via @Forbes @Forbes
Legal Money Laundering: How A German Bank Is Cleaning Tainted Bitcoin And Other Dirty Cryptos

Blacklisted Bitcoin? Frankfurt’s Bankhaus Scheich has a budding business cleaning crypto and getting it back into circulation.

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On September 9, 2010 SOMEONE created the r/bitcoin subreddit. No one seems to know who....Any ideas?
Bitcoin's 14th anniversary was VERY bittersweet this year, as industry giants celebrated by behaving an awful lot like the banks Satoshi warned against: https://youtu.be/A3nQyroeL8Y via @Forbes
The Unexpected Value In Sam Bankman-Fried Pleading Not Guilty | Forbes Crypto Expert Breaks It Down

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From the paper "Why Cryptoassets Are Not Securities," published by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/12/06/why-cryptoassets-are-not-securities/
Why Cryptoassets Are Not Securities

FTX’s collapse reiterates the need for comprehensive U.S. regulation of crypto markets. This regulation must have a solid legal foundation, a key ...

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Amazing, in-depth reporting on Wintermute, the crypto trading firm emerging as a juggernaut in the wake of FTX's implosion: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/12/20/with-sam-bankman-frieds-hedge-fund-gone-crypto-trading-firm-wintermute-emerges/?sh=6b75b9682bbb via @Forbes
With Sam Bankman-Fried's Hedge Fund Gone, Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Emerges

By deftly navigating crypto’s frontier markets and winning big on the collapse of Terra’s stable coin, Wintermute has grown into one of the world’s leading crypto trading firms. Now it must navigate a market littered with carcasses and landmines.

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