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Financial Times digital markets correspondent | reporting on crypto and capital markets
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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

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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
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December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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…
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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
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December 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Kwasi Kwarteng does crypto - the former UK chancellor is helping launch a bitcoin treasury company

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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
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November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
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
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October 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Welcome to the bitcoin-per-share market. Going to be an interesting ride

Big Read by @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8a16...
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
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August 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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...
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
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March 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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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.
A methodology note at the foot of the story linked to in the post, which reads: How the FT calculated the $TRUMP earnings The FT analysed data from the Solana blockchain, following the movement of Trump coin from its creation on January 17 to the end of its first few weeks of trading. The coin’s initial distribution was primarily managed by four accounts, which set up a “liquidity pool” on Meteora, a decentralised exchange, in order to sell most of that initial distribution. The FT downloaded the full transaction history of these accounts during this period, as well as the transactions within the liquidity pool. From this we have been able to reconstruct how the coin was traded and at what prices. The $350mn is a floor estimate. More money would have been made via sales on other platforms. It is not possible to calculate how much was made from transactions that took place off the blockchain.
March 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM