Author name: Dennis Kneale

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO The contagion from FTX\’s collapse underscores the appeal of keeping funds in your own custody, says crypto executive Stephen Young. After years of designing software for banks, Young helped found Coindirect, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, in 2017. He left three years later to start NFTfi, a decentralized lending platform. Young\’s pivot […]

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist Former President Trump, who often says the liberal media are the “enemy of the people,” has a new nemesis: the conservative media. They are turning on him with a startling vehemence in the wake of the Republican bellyflop in the midterms. Even more startling, this turning on Trump

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO J. Christopher Giancarlo has witnessed seismic shifts in the crypto industry before, including the initial-coin-offering boom that turned into an epic bust in 2018. He also had a front-row seat to these watershed moments. From 2014 to 2019, Giancarlo was with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates the U.S. derivatives

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist On the morning after the Red Wave That Wasn’t, it became clear that the media and their relieved Democrat allies have a new nemesis: election “deniers,” Republican candidates who have dared express any doubts about the 2020 election. The media are copiously tracking down election deniers and calling

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Four months ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was touting the health of his own mega-businesses — crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research — as he gamely stepped up to bail out others that were teetering on the edge of collapse. FTX is now dealing with its own financial implosion. On Friday,

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Hollywood veterans John Attanasio and Luisa Huang are betting that entertainment will push web3 into the mainstream. After spending time at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Disney and Dreamworks, they hit on the idea of giving viewers a voice in content production. That was the trigger that led them to strike out on

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist Now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, he is Public Enemy No. 1 for the media and Democrats. Little more than a week has passed since Musk took control of Twitter, yet media reports have him  firing up to 75% of staff (over the weekend, layoffs went

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist As the midterm elections approach, both political parties and the media focus on national hot-button issues that drive donations and clicks: abortion, gun control, open borders, Climate Change, the Jan. 6 “insurrection.” Those issues, however, have little direct impact on our daily lives. Crime is the more personal,

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Joshua Goldbard founded payments company MobileCoin five years ago with a clear goal in mind: protecting the privacy of users. It\’s \”insane,\” he says, that payment apps like Cash App and Venmo allow people to see the payments history of users. As a general rule, crypto users value anonymity. And yet,