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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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Swan Bitcoin puts a convicted child molester on stage. I’ve long complained Bitcoin fanatics will forgive anthing so long as a fellow traveller extolls BTC—but this is a new low

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Where your tuition goes: athletics, administrators and now debt service.

These figures are only until 2016! After that Auburn University stopped providing granular figures.

The school 'declined to answer more than two dozen questions about changes to its budget'
wsj.com/us-news/educat…

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What's next for the jolly gang at FTX?

Don't miss 'Fast Times at FTX' our fun holiday yearbook
by Leo Schwartz and Ben Weiss
fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…

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Politico: 'Crisis communicators face blowback after disastrous college hearing'

Law firm Wilmer Hale and PR shops Edelman and Risa Heller—who reps SBF's parents—charged big $$$ for 'worst advice money could buy'

politico.com/news/2023/12/2…

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COIN stock on its best run since 2021. Big question is if earnings will match the hype.

Earnings have been flat/dismal for a long time. But new BTC volatility + off-shore revenue + gusher of ETF custody revenue could change that

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Amazing that when you show anti-crypto people volume numbers from exchanges they say it’s fraudulent wash trading and there are no users

But if you show them $7 million in loosely-tied-to Hamas trades suddenly it’s both real and an offence warranting the label of treason

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Wow. ZCash's promise of privacy was once one of the hottest projects in crypto and Zooko had a cult following. So much for that

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'The SEC attaches a string to Bitcoin ETFs—and investors will be the one to pay for it'

Gensler wants to bar crypto ETFs from using in-kind redemptions—which increase efficiency and are used by every other ETF including gold. Why?

fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…

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Scoop by Leo Schwartz: NY's ambitious AG is renewing her push to elbow out the state's financial regulator and get a piece of the crypto action

Important b/c agency infighting will hurt NY's role has the country's de facto leader in crypto regulation
fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…

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MicroStrategy stock up 5% on news crypto accounting rules will go into effect next December

Tesla and Block also set to post big on-paper gains thanks to mark-to-market rule

Big question is if this leads more firms to add BTC to corporate treasuries

fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…

MicroStrategy stock up 5% on news crypto accounting rules will go into effect next December Tesla and Block also set to post big on-paper gains thanks to mark-to-market rule Big question is if this leads more firms to add BTC to corporate treasuries fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…
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At SFO and young woman on my right is cranking on ChatGPT while laptop of dude next to her is covered with Solana stickers

Sign of the times (or maybe of San Francisco)

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'He may be at the very top of the list as the worst person I’ve ever seen do a cross examination' — SBF's own lawyer

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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'Planning my kids' summer camp' — Google VP Sissie Hsiao on how she will use Bard.

That got loud applause, and I can understand why!

'Planning my kids' summer camp' — Google VP Sissie Hsiao on how she will use Bard. That got loud applause, and I can understand why! #FortuneAI
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Nothing to see here, just the owner of this site and a presidential candidate chatting it up with a man indicted for rape/human trafficking and another who lied about dead kids to harass their grieving parents.

This may really be the bottom.

Nothing to see here, just the owner of this site and a presidential candidate chatting it up with a man indicted for rape/human trafficking and another who lied about dead kids to harass their grieving parents. This may really be the bottom.
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Binance's CZ can't return to UAE ahead of sentencing

Judge in Seattle cites CZ's status as a 'multi-billionaire' and overseas crypto to explain usual ruling

Also cites DOJ's unverified claim UAE offered CZ citizenship to say he might not come back

fortune.com/2023/12/07/bin…

Binance's CZ can't return to UAE ahead of sentencing Judge in Seattle cites CZ's status as a 'multi-billionaire' and overseas crypto to explain usual ruling Also cites DOJ's unverified claim UAE offered CZ citizenship to say he might not come back fortune.com/2023/12/07/bin…
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The SEC wants more time to respond to a judge's accusation that it made 'materially false and misleading representations' in a lawsuit against the crypto company DEBT Box.

I wrote about the strange case last Friday with Jeff Roberts

fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…

The SEC wants more time to respond to a judge's accusation that it made 'materially false and misleading representations' in a lawsuit against the crypto company DEBT Box. I wrote about the strange case last Friday with @jeffjohnroberts fortune.com/crypto/2023/12…
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Something no Harvard president wants to hear from a liberal professor like Laurence Tribe:

“Claudine Gay’s hesitant, formulaic, and bizarrely evasive answers were deeply troubling to me and many of my colleagues, students, and friends.” thecrimson.com/article/2023/1…

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