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Bitmine’s Switch From Ether to MrBeast

By Yueqi Yang · Jan 15, 2026 5:00pm PST

Investors who own shares of Bitmine, which last year turned itself into a holding company for ether tokens, woke up to some surprising news today. Bitmine is investing $200 million in Beast Industries, the company of MrBeast, the No.1 YouTuber. He’s known for making viral videos, not for his interest in ether. The investment is what you... Investors who own shares of Bitmine, which last year turned itself into a holding company for...

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A Pocket of Enterprise Software Investors Still Love

By Cory Weinberg · Jan 15, 2026 3:39pm PST

What do you get when you offset investors’ recent loathing of software startups with their lust for defense tech? Fast-growing Onebrief, the latest startup to double its valuation in a short span after raising $200 million this week from Battery Ventures and Sapphire Ventures at a $2.15 billion valuation, including the new investment.Onebrief... What do you get when you offset investors’ recent loathing of software startups with their lust...

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Cowork Versus Copilot

By Aaron Holmes · Jan 15, 2026 10:51am PST

The AI business continues to create and shift alliances between almost every leading tech firm. Companies may be incentivized to work together to fill each other’s AI or capital needs even as they compete more fiercely for consumer or enterprise dollars.That’s what’s happening with Microsoft and Anthropic. The two firms have recently become fast... The AI business continues to create and shift alliances between almost every leading tech firm....

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CoinDesk Revenue Slowed Before Sale to Bullish

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 29, 2023 10:34am PST

Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news subsidiary CoinDesk to the crypto exchange Bullish. Silbert said in a tweet that the sale made CoinDesk, which DCG bought for $500,000 in 2016, “one of our best investments of all time,” but the sale price was not disclosed and could not be learned.What is... Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news...

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One Binance Saga Comes to a Close

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 22, 2023 9:15am PST · 2 comments

Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating headlines, U.S. officials barged in with a settlement in long-running investigations into Binance.The deal is on one hand a seismic shift for the world’s biggest crypto exchange. (You can view our updated Binance org chart here.) Its founder Changpeng Zhao... Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating...