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This Week on Crypto Twitter

Decrypt's weekend roundup of tweets from the past week that led the crypto conversation.

CollectionLast updated Sep 22, 2024
Sep 22
Trump buys burgers with Bitcoin at NYC's PubKey bar. Photo: PubKey

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Trump Devours the Timeline, Iggy Azalea's Twerk Dispute

In a year that has pushed crypto to unprecedented heights of cultural and political prominence, this week brought some of the cycle’s most uncanny moments yet—thanks to Donald Trump.  On Monday, just one day after the former president survived an apparent second assassination attempt, he hosted Rug Radio’s Farokh Sarmad, a prominent Crypto Twitter personality, to discuss digital assets policy at his Mar-a-Lago estate. (Disclaimer: Rug Radio is Decrypt’s sister company.) Due to the wild timing,...

NewsBusiness
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Sep 15
Former U.S. President Donald Trump (center) with sons Donald Jr. (left) and Eric (right). Photo: Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Friend.tech Peaces Out, Trump Teases World Liberty Project

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Degens had plenty to sink their teeth into last week on Crypto Twitter, with surprise developments emerging from numerous high-profile projects in the space.  At the top of the week, Friend.tech, the once-red-hot decentralized social network with financial incentives, announced that development of the project had effectively ceased after months of flagging momentum. Admin and ownership parameters have been set to 0x000...000 to prevent any changes to...

NewsBusiness
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Sep 8
Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Image: Instagram

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Telegram Founder’s Reemergence Sparks Split

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt While Crypto Twitter can often be brutally black-and-white when it comes to narrativizing major events, this week saw the industry splinter into shades of gray after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov broke a days-long silence following his release from police custody in France.  In a lengthy letter to the public on this week—posted first to Telegram and then to Twitter—Durov weighed in for the first time on his arrest and indictment last week by French authori...

NewsLaw and Order
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Sep 1
Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Image: Instagram

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Outrage and Unity as Telegram and OpenSea Come Under Fire

The crypto industry found itself in an increasingly familiar position this week: on the defensive, banding together to fight back against encircling government forces.  The latest cycle of drama kicked off in full force late last weekend, when the French government abruptly arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov as he stepped off his private jet in Paris. Immediately, crypto and decentralization advocates emerged as some of the strongest voices to defend Durov—who has himself recently turned Telegram...

NewsLaw and Order
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Aug 25
Donald Trump onstage at Bitcoin 2024. Image: Bitcoin 2024

This Week on Crypto Twitter: McDonald’s Gets Rugged, Bitcoin Fan RFK Backs Trump

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt This week saw crypto degeneracy spread its tendrils far and wide—from the upper echelons of corporate America, to the center of the presidential election.  On Wednesday, the world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s, found its social media operation infiltrated by an unwelcome—and exceptionally merry—group of crypto bandits, who used the company’s Instagram account to pump, and soon thereafter dump, a Grimace-themed meme coin.  I would like to ord...

NewsCoins
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Aug 18
Former President Donald J. Trump at the CPAC Conference in Washington DC in February 2024. Image: Lev Radin/Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Degens Jump on Trump Word Bingo

Every few days in crypto brings a new red-hot gambling trend for degens that's too thrilling to pass up. This week, for whatever reason, that can’t-miss betting opportunity became predicting the exact words and phrases to be uttered by Donald Trump.   The oddly specific game first whipped up excitement in the build-up to Monday, when the former president sat for a two-hour Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk. Perhaps because both public figures loom so large in crypto, some intrepid Polymark...

NewsCoins
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Aug 11
Image: Dim Dimich/Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Bitcoin Battered as Trump-Themed Tokens Dump

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Crypto Twitter scrambled at the start of the week as dire global economic numbers flooded the crypto market with a sea of red. Coming out of the weekend, renowned Bitcoin hater Peter Schiff said to brace for a “Crypto black Monday.” #Bitcoin just sank below $58K. If it takes out it's July low by tomorrow's U.S. #StockMarket open, #BitcoinETFs will gap down by more than 15%, 30% below their Jan. highs. A loss of that magnitude may finally trigger mass...

NewsCoins
5 min read
Ryan Ozawa
Aug 4
Former President Donald Trump in 2023. Photo: Lev Radin / Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Trump Keeps Beating Bitcoin Drum as Markets Melt Down

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Although Bitcoiners were likely hoping to take a victory lap after Donald Trump's speech at Bitcoin Nashville last weekend, it turned out to be a dim week for the top cryptocurrency, finishing the week down more than 10% and dipping below $60,000 on Saturday amid heaps of liquidations and growing fears of a U.S. recession. Meanwhile, Crypto Twitter continued to argue over whether the former president's embrace of crypto was meaningful, or merely pande...

NewsCoins
4 min read
Ryan Ozawa
Jul 28
Images: Jonah Elkowitz/Lev Radin/Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Trump Talks Bitcoin After Ethereum ETFs Launch

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Crypto Twitter is still giddy after former president Donald Trump took the stage at Bitcoin Nashville on Saturday to read off a list of campaign promises aimed at courting Bitcoin fans and crypto investors. Although his remarks began an hour late and were often meandering, he told the crowd, “I'm laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet.” The campaign promise that unquestionably drew the most raucous...

NewsCoins
5 min read
Sander Lutz
Jul 21
Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Going All-In for Trump—Or Going Too Far?

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt An unprecedented presidential election continued to reverberate throughout the crypto industry this week, as leaders and influencers alike embraced Donald Trump’s campaign in the aftermath of the recent attempt on his life—some with more extreme rhetoric than others.  With the Republican National Convention dominating the airwaves this week—and Trump announcing his pick for vice president, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance—crypto users appeared more whipped up...

NewsBusiness
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Jul 14
Image: Gino Santa Maria/Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Trump Support Surges After Shooting, Degens Brush Off Germany’s Bitcoin Dumps

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt We thought we'd seen everything last week had to offer, not to mention Crypto Twitter's reactions to it all. But then on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. president and current presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally. Trump survived what the FBI has described as an assassination attempt with an injury to his ear. He was rushed to safety by Secret Service members as the shooter, identified by law enforcement as 20-year-...

NewsCoins
5 min read
Andrew Hayward, Sander Lutz
Jul 7
"Jeo Boden." Image: Jeo Boden/Twitter

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Degens Bet on Biden’s Woes

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Despite the hostility of many crypto users to Joe Biden’s crypto agenda, the president’s crisis of legitimacy this week has cut both ways for degens—who, surprise surprise, care first and foremost about profiting off the news one way or another. On crypto betting site Polymarket, users have already bet over $326 million on questions related to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and whether Biden will drop out over newfound concerns about h...

NewsCoins
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Jun 30
Roaring Kitty in a 2020 video. Image: Roaring Kitty

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Roaring Kitty Chases Dogs, Blast Airdrop Underwhelms

Meme stock influencer Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, flexed his enduring influence over odd corners of the stock market this week, as the much-hyped airdrop for Ethereum layer-2 network Blast appeared to fall flat.  After a prolonged period of silence, GameStop bull Roaring Kitty abruptly returned to Twitter on Thursday with an enigmatic, wordless post of a cartoon dog.  pic.twitter.com/jQBMX4jwjR — Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) June 27, 2024 Within a span of 15 minutes, the (forgive us) do...

NewsMarkets
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Jun 23
Martin Shkreli in 2016. Image: NBC News/YouTube

This Week on Crypto Twitter: A Donald Trump Crypto Controversy, Starring Martin Shkreli

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Celebrities of all kinds have dominated Crypto Twitter as of late, and the last few days were no different. Instead of bitter rivalries or ridiculous stunts, however, this week featured a perplexing mystery, a former president, and one of crypto’s most prominent villains.  The circus began promptly on Monday, when a month-old Donald Trump-themed Solana meme coin, DJT, surged on unsubstantiated rumors that the coin was actually backed by its namesake....

NewsCoins
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Jun 16
Iggy Azalea and Andrew Tate face off in the world of crypto. Image: Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Iggy Azalea and Andrew Tate Duel in Meme Coin Battle

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt The recent craze surrounding celebrities and meme coins shifted into high gear this week, with a grab bag of influencers and famous musicians apparently jumping on the crypto bandwagon.  On Monday, Ariana Grande shared a meme that inspired the Solana token Michi on her Instagram story, sending the coin’s holders into elation.  Ariana Grande is shilling $michi. Raise your targets. pic.twitter.com/Z7SiIS9PKU — ab76 (@playerab76) June 10, 2024 Once cr...

NewsCoins
3 min read
Sander Lutz
Jun 9
Roaring Kitty during his June 7, 2024 livestream. Image: YouTube

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Roaring Kitty Shows His Face, Gets Rekt

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt The revived saga of Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, hit a crescendo this week when the meme stock influencer last seen in 2021 finally showed his face on a livestream after weeks of mysterious, market-altering social media posts that some had doubted were actually from him. It was really him. The event came with market-wide ramifications—some of which did not work out in Gill’s favor. After reports that Gill might be in trouble with regulators and trad...

NewsCoins
4 min read
Sander Lutz
Jun 2
Caitlyn Jenner. Image: Shutterstock

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Celebrities Dive (Back) Into Crypto

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Anyone nostalgic for the long-gone heyday of random celebrities diving headfirst into crypto, rejoice! We appear to be back at that absolutely absurd part of the cycle. In a Mad Lib-esque turn of events, this week kicked off with Caitlyn Jenner shilling a Pump.fun Solana meme coin named in an apparent attempt to aid Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. make america great again!!! 🇺🇸  and we love crypto!  https://t.co/SiYwteBGkv @pumpdotfun 🫡 pi...

NewsMarkets
5 min read
Sander Lutz
May 19
Roaring Kitty in a 2020 video. Image: Roaring Kitty YouTube Channel.

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Roaring Kitty Returns, Pump.fun Attacker Bares All

This week on Crypto Twitter was chock-full of personalities stealing the show—some for positive reasons, others for… darker ones.  Last Sunday, a years-dormant Twitter account belonging to Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty—the meme stock influencer best known for architecting the short squeeze of GameStop (GME) stock in 2021—suddenly reactivated, sending Twitter and financial markets alike into a frenzy.  pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS — Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024 Over the following...

NewsBusiness
4 min read
Sander Lutz
May 12
Artwork from one of Donald Trump's NFTs. Image: Donald Trump

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Fantasy Top Tops the Charts, Trump Courts Crypto

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt This week, a gamified competition among Crypto Twitter influencers generated a frenzy of posts and millions in profits while major public figures like Tom Brady and Donald Trump waded back into crypto waters.  Fantasy Top—an Ethereum NFT game that pits social media fan bases against each other in a fantasy football-like competition—made waves this week as tribes of Crypto Twitter users furiously commented and reposted to support their chosen influence...

NewsCoins
4 min read
Sander Lutz
May 5
Photo Illustration: Decrypt

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Ethereum, CZ, and Roger Ver in US Government Crosshairs

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Crypto Twitter often delivers a heavy helping of the law, but the past seven days brought a double dose.  On Monday, unredacted portions of a lawsuit filed by Ethereum software company Consensys against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed that the regulator has secretly considered ETH to be a security for over a year.  The bombshell news quickly sparked anger and indignation, given the fact that SEC Chair Gary Gensler has repeat...

NewsCoins
4 min read
Sander Lutz
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