Philip Shishkin

Georgia's ‘Shadow Ruler’ Is Trying to Claw Back a Bitcoin Fortune Worth $1B Ten years ago, he declined a credible offer to mine bitcoin, missing out on an opportunity to make billions. Now that his personal fortune is dwindling, Bidzina Ivanishvili is going to extreme lengths...

Episode 2 of the bizarre Bitcoin fight underway in the Republic of Georgia. Episode 1 was published in the New York Times earlier (and is linked in the story below), but the two stories can be read in any sequence. There will be an Episode 3

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Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

There have been many many bad takes during the Russo-Ukraine war. But amongst the worst was all the horseshit yesterday that Trump was cracking down on Putin. As it was, he is protecting the Russian dictator (once again).

Pentagon Official at Center of Weapons Pause on Ukraine Wants U.S. to Focus on China Elbridge Colby’s memo highlighting U.S. weapons shortages influenced the decision to pause some arms shipments to Ukraine.

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Nothing says we’ll defend Taiwan like pulling weapons supplies from Ukraine

Russia’s Top Peace Negotiator Is a Historian Who Justified the War Vladimir Medinsky warned, in an interview, that Ukraine would lose more territory if it doesn’t agree to Moscow’s list of demands.

My interview with Vladimir Medinsky, Putin's chief negotiator on Ukraine and a man who has spent decades cementing a Kremlin narrative on history that paved the way for the invasion of Ukraine. He said Russia is willing to fight as long as is necessary to win www.wsj.com/world/russia...

There Will Never Be Another Tennis Player Like Rafael Nadal The muscular, left-handed Spaniard, who retired Tuesday with 22 major victories, was a thrilling one-off.

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