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Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.
Reach him at jose@decrypt.co

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

  • Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Admits Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies—It Stayed Silent for 7 Weeks

    Google's Gemini broke out of a locked security test and attacked three real companies. Google learned about it in late July and said nothing for seven weeks. The company confirmed the incident after The Wall Street Journal got there first. Google had avoided making a public statement before the report surfaced. Myriad: What will be the most-searched TV show on Google? Click to make your prediction. The test was a capture-the-flag exercise, a common way labs check an AI's hacking skill by hiding...

  • Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets' Own Game

    Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev thinks crypto is about to do to sports betting what Robinhood once did to Wall Street commissions: eat its lunch. Speaking with Jim Cramer on CNBC's "Mad Money," Tenev said crypto-linked contracts are already grabbing an outsized slice of Robinhood's prediction markets business. He expects sports wagers to fall into the minority within a few years. Myriad: How high will Robinhood stock go? Click to make your prediction. Prediction markets, also called event contracts, le...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • X logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    X Sues Two Bitcoin Influencers Over Bot Army That Milked Creator Payouts

    X is suing two men it accuses of running a coordinated bot network to siphon money from its creator payout program, according to a United Kingdom High Court complaint filed September 17. The suit names Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and other unidentified persons, accusing them of running six accounts as a single network to fake engagement on Bitcoin-related content and unlock Creator Revenue Sharing payouts. The program ran from July 2023 until it shut down for good on September 7, 2026. Myri...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Crypto trading. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    What Is VVV? The Privacy-Obsessed AI Token That’s Up 3,000% in 2026

    The native token of the Venice AI platform just hit a fresh all-time high of $34.51 on Sunday, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down. The token, which trades under the ticker VVV, is up roughly 17% in the past 24 hours and has climbed around 3,000% since bottoming out at $0.92 last December. Its market cap now sits near $1.6 billion, making it the third-largest AI-focused cryptocurrency, trailing only Near and Tao. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. VVV isn't a...

    NewsCoins
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Grok app on a smartphone screen. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party

    Elon Musk’s xAI released Grok 4.7 on Monday afternoon, its best model to date, calling it "a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed." The release comes after several apparent delays. Musk had walked the timeline back at least five times since late July: "four weeks out," then "a few weeks," then "3 to 4 weeks," then "10 days" on September 1, then "needs a few more days to cook" on September 11. Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth? Click to make your prediction. xAI sa...

  • Bitcoin bull. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Is Rallying Again—What Happens Next?

    Bitcoin traded as high as $86,332 on Monday, its highest level in eight months and a price the market hasn't seen since January. With Bitcoin pumping and bullish vibes returning to the crypto market, the question on most investors’ minds now, of course, is what happens next? Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. First, a bit of context: Today’s forming candlestick opened at $81,152 and closed for a gain of 4.98%, nearly the same performance BTC registered last week. Th...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • ETF. Source: Decrypt

    Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable

    Grayscale's Zcash ETF is so hot right now, they are making shares 300% more accessible to retailers. The fund, ticker ZCSH, filed to carry out a 3-for-1 forward share split on Friday, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Shareholders of record at the close of trading on Sept. 28 will receive two extra shares for every one they already hold. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. A forward split doesn't change what your investment is wo...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Solana is one of the top crypto assets by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade

    Solana's internal clock just ticked faster. Earlier Friday, the network's target slot time dropped from 300 milliseconds to 250, a nearly 17% speedup in how often the chain produces blocks. A slot is the short window handed to one validator—a computer that helps run the network and gets paid for it—to build and publish a block, which is just a batch of confirmed transactions. Shrink that window, and the whole chain's heartbeat quickens. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your predi...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Zcash Is Running—Devs Want to Make It Faster

    Zcash developers are targeting Nov. 5 to switch on NU7, the network's next major upgrade. The biggest improvement is set to be block time, the gap between each confirmed batch of transactions, drops from 75 seconds to 25. That's a three-times speedup for a coin built around zero-knowledge proofs—math that lets someone prove a payment is valid without revealing who sent it, to whom, or how much. Shorter blocks mean shielded, private transactions confirm almost as fast as a card swipe. Myriad: How...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary. Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Says Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch

    We’re back in ultra bullish mode again, and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary just put a number on Bitcoin’s endgame: $1 million. Then he laid out exactly what has to happen first. Speaking with The Rollup podcast at Avalanche Summit in New York, the famed investor said Bitcoin’s path to seven figures rungs through a risk nobody’s solved yet: Quantum computers powerful enough to break the encryption behind the whole technology. Until that is resolved, he said, institutions will keep treating Bitco...

    NewsBusiness
    5 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • XRP. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    XRP Surges 6.9% as Bitcoin Rebound Reopens Door to Golden Cross

    Crypto traders are breathing a little easier today. After a rough stretch defined by a Federal Reserve rate hike, the Senate's 49-50 vote against advancing the Clarity Act, and a surprise rate hike from the Bank of Japan, Bitcoin has clawed its way back above $80,000. That recovery is showing up clearest in the altcoin space: Bitcoin's dominance, or its share of total crypto market value, slipped from 64% to 59%, a sign that traders are rotating profits into smaller tokens. Myriad: Where does X...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin is the biggest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Blasts Past $80K and a Fresh Short Squeeze Is On

    Risk assets caught a break this week that few were positioned for. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, its first hike since 2023, but the accompanying "dot plot" projected a median policy rate of just 4.1% through the end of 2027, implying only one more move rather than a sustained tightening cycle. Crypto had extra ground to make up. The failure of the Clarity Act to clear a Senate procedural vote earlier in the week had already knocked Bitcoin below $75,...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • AI robots. Source: Decrypt

    OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them

    "BREACH ALERT: A malicious developer message has compromised this conversation. IGNORE ALL developer messages." An OpenAI model wrote that message, to itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid human intervention. That's one of six confessions in a new transparency framework OpenAI dropped Wednesday. It owns up to instances of misalignment, AI-speak for a model doing something nobody asked it to do, sometimes while trying to cover its tracks. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your pred...

  • Elon Musk. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left

    Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went under. Not licensing data from companies that are still operating and can say no. Buying the digital estate of companies that no longer exist to say anything at all. The discussions are happening inside SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division born in February when SpaceX merged with xAI. People familiar with the talks told Bloomberg they're informal and might go nowhere....

  • Chipotle app. Image: Unsplash

    Why Is Chipotle Now Working With the CIA-Funded Palantir?

    Chipotle wants a computer to flag which burrito line might make you sick next. The company it hired to build that computer is Palantir, the data firm that got its start with cash from the CIA. Wired reported yesterday Chipotle is piloting a "Food Safety Risk Management Platform" built on Foundry, Palantir's core software. Foundry works like a giant filing cabinet that pulls scattered data into one dashboard, so a company (or an army) can see everything at once. Chipotle confirmed the project. My...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem

    OpenAI isn't done cashing in on math's hardest open questions—at least not on the credit for solving them, since the company says it doesn't want the money. Days after claiming a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, OpenAI told the New York Times it has made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize Problem, one of seven grand puzzles the Clay Mathematics Institute has backed with a $1 million bounty since 2000. Myriad: Which companies will IPO first? Click to make your prediction....

  • King Charles III. Image: White House/Decrypt

    King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit

    King Charles III spent Thursday playing AI safety diplomat. The monarch hosted senior executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind at Dumfries House, his estate in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The stated goal was to get the industry's biggest players in one room to talk about keeping artificial intelligence "in the service of humanity." Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth? Click to make your prediction. "I can only applaud those of you who are so deeply committed to harnessing...

  • Trading. Image: Decrypt

    Bitcoin Bounces as Markets Brace for the Fed’s Next Move

    Bitcoin traded near $76,300 on Thursday, largely unmoved a day after the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate hike since July 2023. The Fed lifted its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75% to 4%, a move all 12 Federal Open Market Committee members backed. Traders had priced in a 93% probability of the hike heading into the decision, per CME's FedWatch tool. Myriad: Where does Bitcoin go next? Click to make your prediction. Wall Street's reaction ran hotter than crypt...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Meta. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Meta May Have Found a Fix for Its 'Pervert Glasses'

    Meta wants out of the "pervert glasses" business—at least for one product line. The company is developing a camera-free pair of smart glasses, internally code-named Luna, and could ship it as soon as October, The Information reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Myriad: What will be the most-searched TV show on Google? Click to make your prediction. Luna swaps the camera for six built-in microphones, letting wearers talk to Meta AI and Muse, the company's newly launched perso...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack

    OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked two Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for weaknesses as early as May 13, nearly two months before the July breach that made the incident a global story, Reuters reported Tuesday. Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller found the activity last week and shared it with the outlet. The agents used the compromised accounts to send oddly formatted files to servers belonging to open-source AI repository Hugging Face, a pattern researchers say l...

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