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Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide. But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:57 Oct 14, 2025
The FCA has outlined a roadmap to help asset managers adopt blockchain and tokenization, aiming to boost efficiency and competition. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed a roadmap to help asset managers adopt blockchain technology for fund tokenization. In a Tuesday announcement, the regulator said the initiative aims to “provide firms with additional clarity” to adopt tokenization and “drive innovation and growth in asset management.” “Tokenization has the potential to drive fundamental changes in asset management, with benefits for the industry and consumers,” said Simon Walls, executive director of markets at the FCA. “There are many things that firms can do under our existing rules and more that become possible with the changes we propose enacting now,” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Oct 14, 2025
S&P Global Ratings and Chainlink have partnered to provide onchain stablecoin risk profiles for TradFi players looking to enter or expand into the $300 billion market. S&P Global Ratings has partnered with blockchain oracle provider Chainlink to give financial institutions onchain access to its new stablecoin stability assessments, which rate each stablecoin by how well it maintains its peg. The Stablecoin Stability Assessments (SSAs) launched on the Ethereum layer-2 network Base on Tuesday, with potential to expand to other blockchains, subject to market demand and client feedback, S&P Global and Chainlink said in a statement seen by Cointelegraph. “As institutional adoption of digital assets accelerates, the ability to access real-time risk assessments directly within blockchain infrastructure has become crucial for market participants.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:11 Oct 14, 2025
The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network’s immutability and decentralization. The South Asian nation of Bhutan is migrating its self-sovereign ID system to Ethereum from Polygon, allowing its nearly 800,000 residents to verify their identities and access government services. The integration with Ethereum has been completed, while the migration of all resident credentials is expected to finish by the first quarter of 2026, according to Ethereum Foundation President Aya Miyaguchi, who joined Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin at the launch ceremony with Bhutan’s prime minister, Tshering Tobgay, and crown prince, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuk. “It’s deeply inspiring to see a nation commit to empowering its citizens with self-sovereign identity,” Miyaguchi posted to X on Monday, adding that the Ethereum integration was a world-first. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:12 Oct 13, 2025
Friday’s flash crash reduced short-term risk appetite but did not affect Bitcoin’s long-term potential, possibly delaying a new all-time high by weeks or even months. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s resilience after Friday’s $19 billion flash crash shows long-term demand remains strong despite short-term risk aversion. Derivatives traders remain cautious, with arbitrage opportunities and negative funding rates signaling heightened counterparty risk. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:58 Oct 13, 2025
A massive Bitcoin short placed minutes before US President Donald Trump announced tariffs with China on Friday has raised questions about insider trading. Garrett Jin, the former CEO of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BitForex, has denied many of the claims levied against him by a pseudonymous online sleuth that involved shorting the market. In a Monday X post, Jin said he had “no connection with the Trump family,” denying allegations of insider trading after crypto researcher Eye claimed he controlled a wallet address used by a whale to short Bitcoin (BTC). The wallet was used to open a short position less than an hour before US President Donald Trump announced “a tariff of 100% on China” on Friday, likely contributing to the price of the cryptocurrency dropping significantly. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:35 Oct 13, 2025
The laws will likely impact social media companies and websites offering services to California residents, including minors, using AI tools. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the US state would establish regulatory safeguards for social media platforms and AI companion chatbots in an effort to protect children. In a Monday notice, the governor’s office said Newsom had signed several bills into law that will require platforms to add age verification features, protocols to address suicide and self-harm, and warnings for companion chatbots. The AI bill, SB 243, was introduced by state Senators Steve Padilla and Josh Becker in January. Padilla cited examples of children communicating with AI companion bots, allegedly resulting in some instances of encouraging suicide. The bill requires platforms to disclose to minors that the chatbots are AI-generated and may not be suitable for children, according to Padilla. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:07 Oct 13, 2025
The compensation plan marks Binance ecosystem’s biggest user relief effort yet following the crypto market wipeout of about $20 billion. BNB Chain has launched a $45 million “reload airdrop” aimed at compensating users who suffered losses trading memecoins during Friday’s market crash. The initiative will distribute BNB (BNB) tokens to more than 160,000 eligible addresses, the network said Monday. Aidrops will begin this week and be completed by early November. BNB Chain is a blockchain network developed by Binance that is now maintained by a decentralized community. It powers the ecosystem’s native BNB token and supports applications across DeFi, gaming and digital assets. Read more
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