What's It Like to Hire a North Korean 'IT Worker'? I Interviewed One
The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.
Bitcoin's Editors Closed Ranks After the Fork Failed
Plus: ⚖️ Washington tells Kalshi to keep trading, court order or not | 🇦🇪 Coinbase takes tokenized stocks to Abu Dhabi | ✈️ FlightAware's Lawsuit Against Kalshi Vanishes Before Anyone Could Rule
Plus: 💰 A divestiture deal that could save Trump a fortune in taxes | 🐛 AI auditors raid Bitcoin codebases | ⚖️ A control fight breaks out at Ondo Finance
Plus: 🏦 An exchange winds down and its CEO finds out with everyone else | 📈 Robinhood shops for a new prediction partner | ⚖️ The CFTC has had enough of copy-paste filings
Washington's Big Crypto Bill Finally Comes for the President's Wallet
Plus: 🕳️ A $24 million bridge hack empties an Arbitrum protocol | ⚖️ Crypto Mom tells DeFi its yield vaults aren't untouchable | 🇫🇷 Polymarket lawyers up against France
Bitcoin Retreats From $67,000 After Clarity Excitement
Plus: 💀 A hyped layer-2 project lab finally runs out of road | 🇷🇺 Russia passes a landmark crypto law with a catch | 🏳️ Jack Mallers walks away from Tether's Bitcoin bet
Trump Moves on the Ethics Clause Blocking the Crypto Bill
Plus:🎖️ The White House's crypto point man isn't shipping out after all | 🏛️ A former NY governor lands on a crypto exchange's board | 💰 Saylor's cash pile grows while his bitcoin sits still
Stripe Wants to Buy One of Its Biggest Payments Rival
Plus: Plus: 🏛️ Trump heads to the table on crypto's biggest bill | 🏦 Wall Street's giants flip on tokenized markets | ⚖️ The Senate sends SBF an unmistakable message
Bitcoin Catches a Bid as the Inflation Picture Cools
Plus: 🎖️ The White House's crypto chief steps away at a critical juncture | 🇬🇧 Washington and London draw up a shared tokenization playbook | ⚖️ The CFTC overrules a state court to protect Kalshi's trades
Trump Invokes a Senator's Death to Push Clarity Act
Plus: 🏛️ Wall Street's back office asks the SEC to box out crypto stock tokens | 💰 Saylor's Bitcoin machine spends a third week hoarding cash | 🇧🇴 A country that banned crypto now eyes making USDT official
