Felix Henderson - Co-Founder & COO at Oh | CryptoSlate

Ed Stone - Founder, Entrepreneur, Fractional CTO.

I'm Ed Stone, an Engineering leader, Founder, Fractional CTO and full-stack developer, based in Vancouver, BC.

Jon Oringer - Founder & Executive Chairman @ Shutterstock - Crunchbase Person Profile

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform | Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform --- When AI erotic companion startup Oh raised a $4.5m funding round in January, it had something few in the shadowy new sector could boast. A roster of named investors, publicly backing the company. VCs are often bound by “vice clauses”, which prohibit firms from investing in controversial products like pornography or weapons. As a result, startups working on ethically contentious products often rely on angel investors and family offices to stay afloat. But Oh, which generates NSFW adult content and conversations with both fictional characters as well as bots based on real people, has tapped into a group of seemingly less squeamish investors: crypto VCs. It’s drawn backing from the likes of Tangent, Kosmos Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Bodhi Ventures and Tagus Capital. “Raising money for a business like this from non-crypto VCs is very difficult,” says Oh founder and CEO Nic Young, who positions the startup as a “decentralised platform” and offers payments via crypto. “A lot of crypto VCs don’t have vice clauses — it’s more liberal and free.” Oh wants to use those fresh funds to build the “AI OnlyFans”, with plans to roll out autonomous scantily clad bots that can market themselves on social media and direct message users with spicy conversation starters. The biggest challenge? Convincing enough users it’s not that weird turning to AI when you’re looking for romance. https://lnkd.in/eRF7a5Dn

Seref on Twitter / X

Meet Index: https://t.co/T59OjhRSOxWhere you meet your next co-founder, co-believer, and collaborator - without performing for the algorithm. @serensandikci and I wanted to build an easier way to find your others. The ones we know are looking for us too.— Seref (@hyperseref) January 29, 2026

Trump crypto venture linked to firm tied to sanctioned figures

World Liberty Financial says checks were carried out before its ‘partnership’ with AB DAO, whose ‘flagship project’ had recently involved sanctioned men

Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others

Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down.  Cardiol…

Wesley Finck (@wesleyfinck.org)

co-founding @cosmik.network building @semble.so writing notes.wesleyfinck.org

Crypto Venture Linked to Men Sanctioned in Scam-Ring Probe Partnered With Trump Firm

The Trump family crypto company’s stablecoin, USD1, is deployed on the AB blockchain network, and a planned AB resort in East Timor had been led by two men sanctioned for alleged work with a U.S.-designated transnational crime organization.

“We need to reinvent the co-op” – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Originally published by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice in a series on “Cooperatives and Religious Communities.”

The Co-op Cloud

An alternative to corporate clouds built by tech co-ops.

Joseph Jacks bets on open source startups, a 'paradox of philanthropy and capitalism' | TechCrunch

Joseph Jacks and OSS Capital have sought some of the earliest stage open source startups, and funded them through their formative years.