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Bhutan has confirmed it has quietly been running a bitcoin mining operation after @SarahNEmerson and I began digging into its secret investments in cryptocurrency earlier this month.
Here's what we have learned 🧵
Iain Martin
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Iain Martin
@_IainMartin
London, England
Joined June 2009
- Muhammad Ali's son and former wife detained by CBP at a Florida Airport courier-journal.com/story/news/201… This line..
- Ryan Breslow stunned investors this week with a plan to raise $450 million for his payments startup at a $14 billion valuation. But the head of the primary investment firm named in the financial documents, Silverbear Capital, claims to never have spoken with Breslow or Bolt...
- One of the most bizarre Silicon Valley stories has taken a new twist. Bolt founder Ryan Breslow wrote to investors earlier this week naming several shareholders who had backed his chaotic attempt to raise $450 million at a $14 billion valuation.
- Interesting to see this sign at arrivals in Gatwick - appealing for information about war crimes from travellers arriving from Ukraine…
- While much of Silicon Valley sought to cut ties with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, American venture capital firm 8VC hired the children of two sanctioned Russian oligarchs
- Shinil eyes ICO after discovering Russian ‘treasure ship’ theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20… of course they do!
- Last week Storyful let go the entire editorial team in Hong Kong. I've been lucky to work with some of the smartest, hardest working people in digital journalism. Please RT and immediately hire @rachelblundy @yennikwok @Sophiaxuqian @laylamashkoor @aaronMCN
- No Longer A Billionaire: Russian Banker Loses More Than $5 Billion Amid Putin's War via @Forbes forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
- A little note on Estonia that came from researching the Bolt story - The tiny Baltic nation that gave us Skype, @Wise , and @Veriff has really leaned very heavily into tech and the startup scene forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
- Hong Kong orders the culling of thousands of hamsters, closes shops selling them and sends more than 100 pet shop visitors into quarantine camp on suspicions that imported hamsters may have spread the virus to humans bloomberg.com/news/articles/… "The hamster furore" a first surely?
- Two of Europe’s wealthiest tech billionaires, brothers Igor and Dmitri Bukhman, have quietly set up a charitable foundation The Bukhman Family Foundation intends to bankroll research into a cure for type 1 diabetes, as well as providing funding for science, education & the arts
- So I tried the HK-Macau-Zhuhai bridge last night under optimal conditions - Sunday evening no traffic - it was a 3 hours door to door journey. The ferry takes one hour...
