#Cryptocurrency

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People (6)

Alexander Scaramucci Venture investor, co-managing member of SALT Fund Management LLC with Alex Klokus and managing member of the general partner of the Solari Capital funds, formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence under Peter Diamandis; son of Anthony Scaramucci.
Anthony Scaramucci Founder of SkyBridge Capital and co-chairman of SALT, White House communications director for ten days in July 2017, defendant in FTX bankruptcy adversary proceeding 24-50209, and father of AJ Scaramucci.
David Chaum David Chaum is the American cryptographer who invented anonymous digital cash, devised the mix network and the blind signature, wrote a 1982 dissertation that anticipated the blockchain, and built the DigiCash eCash system whose 1998 bankruptcy left the cypherpunks to pursue trustless money.
Eugene Jhong Eugene Jhong holds Harvard A.B. and J.D. degrees and a Stanford master's in computer science, and is listed on the Galileo Project's Philanthropic Advisory Board.
Jared Polis Jared Polis is the governor of Colorado, the first openly gay person elected a U.S. governor, a technology entrepreneur who founded ProFlowers and cofounded Techstars, and a name on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society.
Sam Bankman-Fried Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the effective-altruism movement's largest benefactor, who directed FTX customer funds into longtermist causes and a 500 million dollar Anthropic investment before FTX collapsed in 2022 and he was convicted of fraud in 2023.

Organizations (5)

Alameda Research Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm, which drew FTX customer deposits through an undisclosed line of credit and put about 500 million dollars into Anthropic, a stake later sold chiefly to a UAE-aligned group.
Blockstream Blockstream is the Bitcoin-infrastructure company that Adam Back and others founded in 2014, builder of the Liquid sidechain and the Core Lightning implementation, employer of several Bitcoin Core developers, and a $3.2 billion firm after its 2021 Series B.
FTX Cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2019 whose customer deposits, commingled with Alameda Research, funded political gifts and effective-altruism grants before its collapse in November 2022.
SALT Fund Management LLC Exempt reporting investment adviser (CRD 316587) managing six private funds with 132,930,715 dollars in assets, owned by Alexander Scaramucci and Alex Klokus; named in FTX bankruptcy filings as creditor-matrix contact and interested party.
Worldcoin Worldcoin, rebranded World, is a biometric-identity and cryptocurrency project cofounded by Sam Altman and operated by Tools for Humanity that scans people's irises with a device called the Orb to build a global proof-of-personhood database, and that has been banned or investigated in numerous countries over its data collection.

Concepts (3)

Cypherpunks The cypherpunks were a cryptography-and-privacy movement organized around a mailing list founded in 1992 by Eric Hughes, Timothy May, and John Gilmore, whose advocacy of strong encryption and digital cash against state control ran forward into Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous author of the 2008 Bitcoin white paper and the developer who launched the network in January 2009, mined roughly 1.1 million bitcoin that have never moved, and stopped public communication in 2011.
The Sovereign Individual The Sovereign Individual is a 1997 book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson that argues digital encryption and electronic commerce will erode the taxing capacity of nation-states and produce a new class of mobile, sovereign individuals operating beyond territorial jurisdiction, repeatedly cited publicly by Peter Thiel as prophetic.