Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

The long con: How North Korean spies spent months in-person to drain $285 million from Drift

The security intelligence research firm said North Korean-state-backed hackers account for 76% of all crypto scam and hack losses in 2026 and have stolen $6 billion since 2017.

Hackers Break Into Thousands of  Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals

Markets

The Green Beret was just the start: New data suggests military insider trading crisis on Polymarket

New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits.

(Ryuno/Unsplash)

Markets

The AI-crypto disconnect: Why Pantera’s CEO thinks institutions are missing the boat on bitcoin

Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead says the "biggest divergence in history" has left AI stocks fully priced while bitcoin remains massively undervalued at 43% below its historical trend.

Consensus 2025: Dan Morehead, Dan Tapiero

Markets

First central bank to test bitcoin says asset is ‘too risky’ for reserves

The Czech Central Bank purchased $1 million in bitcoin in October to run tests and conduct a study and found it is more efficient than stocks and gold but much too risky.

Czech Republic Central Bank (VitVit/Wikimedia Commons)

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A tiny group is winning on Polymarket as under 1% of wallets take half the profits

After research showed a small minority moves prices, new data suggests an even smaller group captures roughly half of all gains.

(Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether leads Belo's $14 million raise to expand stablecoin payments across Latin America

Belo, which has over 3 million users across Latin America, offers a digital wallet that lets users hold and transfer local currencies alongside digital dollars.

South America (Isabela Kronemberger/Unsplash)

Finance

Mezo unveils institutional bitcoin yield vaults as demand grows to put idle BTC to work

A new product from Mezo, backed by Anchorage Digital and seeded by Bullish, highlights a broader shift as institutions seek yield on bitcoin without sacrificing custody or control.

Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood stock falls 8% after big earnings miss due to weak crypto trading revenue

While the trading platform’s crypto revenue tanked 47% to $134 million, a record-breaking surge in prediction market bets helped push overall revenue up 15% to $1.07 billion.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

World Cup fever: Chiliz expands to Solana and Base to supercharge fan token trading

Chiliz rolled out its own layer-1 network in 2023 to host the trading of its tokens, but is transitioning to what it calls "omnichain distribution."

16:9 Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus in Singapore during Token2049 (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Tech

Not a theft, but a statement: Inside the Bitcoin proposal to reassign Satoshi-linked coins

Paul Sztorc says he can't move a single sat of Satoshi's bitcoin and isn't trying to. But critics say rewriting forked-chain balances at addresses a user does not control sets a bad precedent.

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