Joel Khalili

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Trumpworld Is Fighting Over ‘Official’ Crypto Wallet

As Donald Trump and his family stretch into nearly every corner of the cryptocurrency sector, a dispute has broken out over which corporate entities are permitted to wield the Trump brand to...

Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve

Trump Media and Technology Group, a publicly traded company in which US president Donald Trump and his family own a majority stake, has raised $2.5 billion to accumulate a “bitcoin treasury.”On Monday,...

A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

As US president Donald Trump left the stage at his golf club near Washington, DC, on Thursday night, he pointed to the crowd, brought his index finger to his temple—as if to...

My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash

Before I was fully awake, still fog-headed and bleary-eyed after my alarm, I could already tell that something was wrong. It was 7:30 am on a frosty February morning, and my phone...

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

A US federal judge in the Southern District of New York has sentenced Alex Mashinsky, founder of defunct cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius, to 12 years in prison.On Thursday, at the end of...

As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount

As the leaders of World Liberty Financial, a crypto company part-owned by US president Donald Trump and his family, fan out across the globe to try to win new business, critics have...

Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen

When Donald Trump agreed to attend a dinner with the largest investors in his own-brand cryptocurrency, he transformed the TRUMP coin into something else entirely: a means of access to the sitting...

The Real Winners of the Trump Memecoin Feeding Frenzy

On Wednesday, the team behind the official Donald Trump memecoin sparked a trading frenzy after announcing that the investors who held the largest amount of the crypto coin in the coming weeks...

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