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Editor-in-Chief CryptoSlate

Also known as "Akiba," Liam Wright is the Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate and host of the SlateCast. He believes that together decentralized blockchain and AI technology have the potential to make widespread positive change.

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Total Articles 2,412

Since Mar 2022

Last Active Jul 23, 2026

Primary Beat Bitcoin

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Recent Articles

Editorial collage showing orange Bitcoin-like liquidity pouring from a distressed industrial storage tank while investors watch, symbolizing Smarter Web’s Bitcoin sale and shrinking treasury exposure.

Digital Asset Treasuries Bearish

Bitcoin treasury company erases 7.7M shares after selling 177 BTC – yet Bitcoin per share fell

The $11.7 million convert vanished, leaving a simpler capital stack and a tougher test for replacement funding.

3 hours ago

Gritty editorial collage showing a silhouetted man facing an illuminated filing cabinet filled with records, beside a large U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seal on a distressed blue background.

Regulation

SEC pays $150,000 as Coinbase-backed Freedom Of Information Act settlement releases two withheld documents

Reported terms include releasing two withheld documents and reviewing records and text-message controls after the Gensler-era losses.

3 hours ago

Editorial collage showing a cracked Tesla emblem, broken Bitcoin symbol, falling red chart, and figures for Tesla’s $112 million unrealized digital-asset loss.

Analysis Bearish

Tesla books $112 million crypto paper loss as digital assets fall to $674 million

The Q2 mark cut GAAP earnings by $87 million after tax, while Tesla added the full pretax loss back to adjusted EBITDA.

4 hours ago

Distressed BitMEX departure board displays the August 26 reduce-only deadline and September 23 withdrawal cutoff above traders leaving an exchange terminal.

Community Bearish

BitMEX shutdown gives traders 2 months to withdraw, but active positions face an earlier deadline

Reduce-only trading begins Aug. 26, with forced closes possible before exchange services end Sept. 23.

5 hours ago

Quantum

Galaxy puts $5 million behind Bitcoin’s race to migrate before quantum risk arrives

Bitcoin is safe today, but signatures, software, custodians and users would need years to coordinate a defense.

1 day ago

Editorial collage of an empty MVMT Labs vault beside the operational Movement Network, with bankruptcy asset and liability figures.

Bankruptcy Bearish

MVMT Labs bankruptcy lists under $1 million in assets after $38M raise

MVMT Labs is the sole named debtor, while Move Industries says it is uninvolved and key asset boundaries remain unresolved.

1 day ago

Department of Justice vessel at sea as a crane lifts a net filled with cryptocurrency coins and bundles of U.S. cash from the water.

Crime

US targets $26.4 million in five crypto scam cases as DOJ says $800 million recovered

Five civil-forfeiture filings show how authorities can restrain crypto before suspects are identified, while victim repayment remains a separate and unresolved process.

1 day ago

Bankruptcy

Celsius founders face permanent crypto bans that could cost more than their $16.5M obligations

Together, the court-entered orders restrict marketing across deposit, exchange, investment, withdrawal and trading products, including assisted activity.

1 day ago

Cracked artificial face bearing OpenAI and Hugging Face branding lies on a stormy beach with exposed circuitry, representing the credibility crisis around the AI breach.

AI Bearish

OpenAI’s model breach is not the singularity, but dismissing it as hype is dangerous

A real model-driven compromise is being squeezed between singularity rhetoric and claims of marketing hype, making it harder to recognize what the incident actually proves.

1 day ago

Bitcoin beside a CLARITY Act document and judge’s gavel, with the U.S. Capitol and American flag in the background.

Regulation Bearish

Senator Lummis says with CLARITY “your crypto stays yours” – but bankruptcy shields have limits

Section 701 would place qualifying assets held for customers in Chapter 7 customer-property rules, while classification and title-transfer clauses still matter.

2 days ago

Monumental Ethereum emblem inside a nearly complete circular progress ring in a Bitmine-branded financial tower.

Digital Asset Treasuries

BitMine gets 98% of revenue from staking as a decade-long contract complicates an early exit

Ethereum Tower can keep its 2% interest and may elect continuing fees or a formula-based payment after a covered termination.

2 days ago

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss stand in front of the US Capitol with Donald Trump, FEC documents, and Bitcoin coins symbolizing their $10 million MAGA Inc. donation.

People

Winklevoss twins gave Trump’s super PAC $10 million 23 days after CFTC joined Gemini relief bid

Matching FEC rows name Gemini because it liquidated the same bitcoin, not because the exchange donated another $10 million.

2 days ago

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Liam 'Akiba' Wright has published within the past 30 days.

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Recent Articles

Bitcoin treasury company erases 7.7M shares after selling 177 BTC – yet Bitcoin per share fell

SEC pays $150,000 as Coinbase-backed Freedom Of Information Act settlement releases two withheld documents

Tesla books $112 million crypto paper loss as digital assets fall to $674 million

BitMEX shutdown gives traders 2 months to withdraw, but active positions face an earlier deadline

Galaxy puts $5 million behind Bitcoin’s race to migrate before quantum risk arrives

MVMT Labs bankruptcy lists under $1 million in assets after $38M raise

US targets $26.4 million in five crypto scam cases as DOJ says $800 million recovered

Celsius founders face permanent crypto bans that could cost more than their $16.5M obligations

OpenAI’s model breach is not the singularity, but dismissing it as hype is dangerous

Senator Lummis says with CLARITY “your crypto stays yours” – but bankruptcy shields have limits

BitMine gets 98% of revenue from staking as a decade-long contract complicates an early exit

Winklevoss twins gave Trump’s super PAC $10 million 23 days after CFTC joined Gemini relief bid

Liam's Top Stories

One crypto wallet tied to a 20-year-old fraudster processed over $122M before Interpol closed in

Bitcoin’s $60K rebound just collapsed as $427M in long liquidations followed sticky inflation data

US government sends $288M to Coinbase putting Bitcoin reserve rules into question