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Jeff Roberts

@jeffjohnroberts

Fortune magazine Finance & Crypto Editor. Lawyer, author, policy geek, IP aficionado. DMs open. SoCal.

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Shame on Nigeria's government. They took an innocent man hostage in a bid to extort Binance for $10 billion -- and are now subjecting him to torture/humiliation Also, Department of State where are you? Tigran Gambaryan is a former Special Agent who served his country. Help him!

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SCOOP: CoinDesk got details on the upcoming Trump crypto venture. Barron is listed as its "Defi Visionary." Team members built a platform that was hacked for $2m in July. One founded Date Hotter Girls LLC. By Sam Kessler, Danny Nelson, Cheyenne Ligon trib.al/FSknujU

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"Crypto Owners More Likely to Have Psychopathic Traits, Study Says" Well yeah. Since when is this news? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Crypto Owners More Likely to Have Psychopathic Traits, Study Says"

Well yeah. Since when is this news?
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Lara and Tiffany Trump getting their X accounts hacked for a crypto scam was TOTALLY on my bingo card fortune.com/crypto/2024/09…

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CFO said exactly this. But since then Coinbase has clarified to say it is Harris Super PAC, not campaign, that did crypto deal (Full verbatim quote: “[Harris] is accepting crypto donations. She’s using Coinbase Commerce now to accept crypto for her own campaign")

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FIRE's new survey of 59k college students is out. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of them have disastrously illiberal ideas about free speech. - 32% said that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable to some degree — up from 27% last year and 20% two years

FIRE's new survey of 59k college students is out.

Unfortunately, a significant percentage of them have disastrously illiberal ideas about free speech.

- 32% said that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable to some degree — up from 27% last year and 20% two years
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Trump sons' crypto hustle not going so great. Also, it's nic carter in Politico: "A huge mistake... Trump’s inner circle is just cashing in on his recent embrace of crypto in a kind of naive way.. burning a lot of the good will that’s been built" politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

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Are you a recently unemployed banker? Wanna talk? I know these are tough times, but I’d love to learn about what happened and what’s next? Ping me here! Thanks!

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⚡ Kamala Harris catches up with Donald Trump and takes the lead, according to Polymarket. She was 7 points behind before the debate.

⚡ Kamala Harris catches up with Donald Trump and takes the lead, according to Polymarket. She was 7 points behind before the debate.
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The good news: You bought Bitcoin for $500 and sold it at 10x to buy a house in Park City The bad news: The IRS caught you lying about the cost basis and you face prison time justice.gov/opa/pr/early-b…

The good news: You bought Bitcoin for $500 and sold it at 10x to buy a house in Park City

The bad news: The IRS caught you lying about the cost basis and you face prison time

justice.gov/opa/pr/early-b…
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It's crazy neither Trump nor Harris are going after carried interest This is the loophole that lets hedge fund and PE execs pay a tax rate of 20%—as the rest of us pay more Read and be outraged: fortune.com/2024/09/17/pri…

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Is Ether a security? When you buy Apple stock, it means you’re expecting a profit from the managerial efforts of Apple the company. But when you buy Ether, from whose managerial efforts are you expecting a profit?

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Crypto folks, Leo Schwartz and I will be part of Mainnet with Messari | Road to #Mainnet2024 🗽 Sept 30-Oct 2 Lots of great speakers. Come join! 25% off w/this link: events.messari.io/mainnet2024/pa…

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The SEC has a policy, known as SAB 121, that requires banks to put custodial assets on their own balance sheets—in violation of generally accepted accounting principles. The SEC is effectively ordering companies not to experiment with blockchain technology. There is