Very fun talking about Wall Street vs crypto, on the latest episode of the FT's Behind the Money podcast

Trump did everything right for the crypto industry. So how come his memecoin is down >90% from peak, and MelaniaCoin (or whatever it's called) has lost 99% asks @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0012...

Strategy diehards keep faith in company that ‘the market doesn’t understand’ Bitcoin hoarder’s business model has come into question but retail traders still view founder as ‘visionary leader’

“The whole entire market is mispricing Strategy"

I spoke to the bitcoin believers who are keeping the faith in Saylor's company

www.ft.com/content/5922...

Tether-owned firm sells crypto miner to companies run by its founder Stablecoin giant’s Devasini is director of groups that bought Peak Mining from Northern Data

Today on complicated crypto financing - Tether's secretive chair Giancarlo Devasini and its CEO bought a crypto miner from a data centre company owned by Tether itself.

Shares in the data centre co are down 13% after today's FT story

www.ft.com/content/352f...

Crypto’s rocky year The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months

Crypto’s rocky year-Explanations for the sell-off — more than $1tn has been erased from the combined capitalisation of about 18,000 digital tokens over the past two months — range from uncertainty…
www.ft.com/content/728a... @nikasgari.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury

Kwasi Kwarteng does crypto - the former UK chancellor is helping launch a bitcoin treasury company

www.ft.com/content/c5a6...

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

Why struggling companies are loading up on bitcoin Biotechs, miners and hoteliers are snapping up crypto to boost their share prices, but experts warn of a crisis if markets crash

Welcome to the bitcoin-per-share market. Going to be an interesting ride

Big Read by @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8a16...

US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations FT analysis finds that while liquidity usually improves, adding a New York listing does not always boost multiples or coverage

The grass is not always greener. US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations, according to FT analysis from @nikasgari.bsky.social and Patrick Mathurin with nifty data viz. www.ft.com/content/6706...

Our stories often downplay the computational lift that goes into getting them. Suffice it to say "a Financial Times analysis of blockchain data" denotes some really impressive data journalism work from @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social.