Kyle Torpey

Articles by Kyle Torpey

Disgraced Crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon With Republican Pivot

Crypto January 31, 2026

Sam Bankman-Fried (also known as SBF), the former CEO of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, wants a pardon from President Trump. The disgraced former executive, who is currently serving out a 25-year οΏ½...

How Winter Storm Fern Slowed Down the Bitcoin Network

Crypto January 29, 2026

The Bitcoin network hashrate, which is the amount of computing power that is pointed at the crypto network, saw a massive decline over the weekend, falling from just over 1,000 exahashes per second oοΏ½...

Winklevoss Twins Shut Down NFT Marketplace in Another Sign Crypto Art Is Dead

Crypto January 29, 2026

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’s crypto exchange, Gemini, has announced the closure of Nifty Gateway, a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that the exchange had previously acquired in 2019. Nifty Ga...

It Turns Out Crypto’s Stablecoin Adoption is Around 1% of Previous Estimates

Crypto January 26, 2026

Stablecoins were all the rage in 2025. The GENIUS Act provided much needed regulatory clarity for the dollar-pegged crypto tokens, and tech giants like Stripe and Sony got involved with their own relοΏ½...

Coinbase Makes Preparations to Face Crypto’s Quantum Computing Threat

Crypto January 25, 2026

U.S.-based crypto exchange giant Coinbase has established an independent advisory board to evaluate and provide guidance on the threat quantum computing may pose to the cryptography used in blockchaiοΏ½...

Iran Shows Why America’s Embrace of Stablecoins Is a Double-Edged Sword

Crypto January 24, 2026

Last year, the United States embraced the stablecoin aspect of the crypto industry with the GENIUS Act, just as President Trump promised during his presidential campaign. As the admin intensifies itsοΏ½...

Bitcoin Price Not Following β€˜Digital Gold’ Narrative Amid Greenland Tensions

Crypto January 23, 2026

While the original Bitcoin whitepaper mostly focused on the crypto network as a peer-to-peer digital cash system for decentralized payments, the narrative around the worlds largest and most valuable οΏ½...

NYSE’s Tokenized Stocks Create More Questions for Crypto’s Relevance

Crypto January 21, 2026

On Monday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced the development of its tokenized securities platform for trading U.S. stocks via blockchain technology. The new platform is said to enable tradοΏ½...

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams Accused of Crypto Pump and Dump With NYC Token - Gizmodo

Business January 14, 2026

On Monday, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who just left office following the election of Zohran Mamdani, promoted the launch of a new NYC Token memecoin on the Solana blockchain via a press cοΏ½...

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams Accused of Crypto Pump and Dump With NYC Token

Crypto January 14, 2026

On Monday, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who just left office following the election of Zohran Mamdani, promoted the launch of a new NYC Token memecoin on the Solana blockchain via a press cοΏ½...