Gareth Jenkinson
@gazza_jenks • 17,013 subscribers
Head of Multimedia @theblockco | founder @satoshiskates | prev. @Cointelegraph @SuperSportTV @ecr9495 | Lover of rugby 🏉 beer 🍻 Crossfit 🏋️ & Bitcoin ₿
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What’s the backstory behind the biggest beef in crypto? OKX founder Star Xu has been vocally critical of Binance & CZ over the years. So I asked CZ for his perspective on his time at OKX & the public feud that ensued after CZ launched his book. Full 🎥👇
Gareth Jenkinson363,090 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
JUST IN: Brian Armstrong challenges France central bank governor on Bitcoin at World Economic Forum in Davos 🔥 François Villeroy de Galhau says "I trust more independent central banks with a democratic mandate than private issuers of Bitcoin". Armstrong hits back: "Bitcoin is a decentralized protocol. There's actually no issuer of it. So in the sense that central banks have independence, Bitcoin is even more independent. There's no country or company or individual who controls it in the world."
Gareth Jenkinson437,070 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
The World Economic Forum doesn't talk about Bitcoin - so I made sure that we did in 2025. I took the chance to ask if the US will adopt a Bitcoin strategic reserve during the 'Crypto at a Crossroads' session inside this year's WEF conference. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong remains confident we will see a Bitcoin reserve in America. Interestingly, South Africa's Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago made it evident that many still don't understand the underlying value proposition of Bitcoin. Armstrong provided an important response: "Many things have been used as money over the years. I think it's clear at this point that, you know, Bitcoin is a better form of money than gold. It is provably scarce, just like gold, but it's more portable and divisible. So you can actually use it. It was the best performing asset of the last ten years. And so for a store of value, I think it's going to be important for governments to hold this over time. It may not it might start with being 1% of their reserves, but I think over time it'll come to be equal to or greater than gold reserves." Cointelegraph
Gareth Jenkinson452,090 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Will agentic trading eventually suffer diminishing returns? It's a question I put to Nansen 🧭 founder Alex Svanevik 🐧 - who's mega bullish on trading agents. "Agent have different inputs, they can consume different information. There are different models. In 2 years we're going to see a flippening in how people trade." Full interview from The Starting Block in the comments 👇 The Block Media The Block
Gareth Jenkinson29,900 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Last year, jack launched #Bitchat, a bluetooth p2p encrypted messaging app. Now, it's leading a revolution in Uganda 🇺🇬 I doubt Dorsey would have thought Bitchat could help Ugandans contest the 38-year presidency (dictatorship) of Yoweri Museveni. Here's why <1M people are using Bitchat ahead of the 2026 Uganda elections 👇 Bitchat allows people to communicate without relying on internet or mobile connectivity. Why does that matter? Because the Ugandan government has previously cut off internet access during the past two elections, limiting the spread of accurate information and communication during voting. Robert Baggs and I had a fascinating conversation with Ugandan Bitcoin advocate Brindon⚡, who has personally used Bitchat in recent months. As Mwiine explains, Bitchat will allow Ugandan's to continue communicating during the 2026 elections, even if the current administration limits internet and mobile usage. This is the reason why peer-to-peer, freedom tech like Bitchat, Bitcoin, Nostr and Signal matter. When governments actively surveil and censor, we still have an opt-out. Share widely. Uganda is using p2p tech in a revolutionary way in real time. Cc calle 🟥 Paolo Ardoino 🤖 Giacomo Zucco (Bear Market Edition) Joe Nakamoto ⚡️ BOBI WINE
Gareth Jenkinson119,917 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
So, why did CZ 🔶 BNB ultimately not become a Bitcoin-only Maxi? CZ famously sold his Shanghai apartment for $900k & bought Bitcoin after being orange-pilled by Bobby Lee - Ballet: World's EASIEST Cold Storage! in 2014. The Binance founder believes everyone building on Bitcoin simply wouldn't work 👇
Gareth Jenkinson31,819 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Donald Trump was the first president to launch a memecoin and the US is on the verge of establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve. I had to ask president Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 if he’ll launch a $RAMAPHOSA coin 🇿🇦😭 Jokes aside, I asked him whether the South African government is considering the merits of a Bitcoin strategic reserve. With the US on the cusp of establishing a BTC stockpile, countries like South Africa may well follow suit if such legislation is passed. Here’s what he had to say outside the World Economic Forum 👇
Gareth Jenkinson222,649 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
How was Michael Saylor able to buy $2.5B of Bitcoin this week? Adam Back explains $STRC to The Block 👇 "It's a proposition bet. I need $ to buy BTC. Lend it to me at 10%. Then buy BTC b/c it's gone up 60% in 10 years. Even if it decays, it's a good arbitrage." Full 📺 in the 🧵
Gareth Jenkinson64,263 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
So, why did the Winklevoss twins launch cypherpunk - the first Zcash Treasury Company? Why are they bullish on Zcash 🛡️? Can Bitcoin and Zcash coexist? I caught up with Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss last week for Cointelegraph - here's everything they said about Zcash 👇 "We're huge fans of Bitcoin. We're hodlers, of course, and also huge fans of Zcash, which we view as encrypted Bitcoin." "Bitcoin is where you store your value and Zcash is where you transact or spend your value. And so we launched a DAT, a treasury company for Zcash, but it's really dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty to help mainstream these ideas. The catalyst for Bitcoin was the financial crisis of 2008. And the catalyst for privacy is the dawn of the age of AI." You can find the full interview on Cointelegraph YT channel below 👇
Gareth Jenkinson115,069 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin says Len Sassaman & Hal Finney are probably Satoshi. As we ponder the quantum threat, Lubin says Bitcoin will have to migrate to quantum secure wallets. The big question - what do we do with Satoshi's Bitcoin? Lubin weighs in 👇 The Block
Gareth Jenkinson34,867 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
The Privacy Renaissance ft. NEAR Protocol Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) One of my favourite interviews to date on The Starting Block 👇 0:00 Introduction & NEAR's Journey 2:30 NEAR Protocol Evolution: From AI Company to Blockchain Infrastructure 5:45 Vertically Integrated Stack: AI + Blockchain 8:15 NEAR Intents & Cross-Chain Trading 11:00 Mainnet Upgrade: Quantum Resistance & Dynamic Resharding 14:30 Why Confidentiality & Privacy Matter 18:45 Confidential NEAR Intents & Infinex Integration 22:15 X402 Foundation Partnership & Machine-to-Machine Payments 25:00 Computing Hardware & Inference Stack 28:30 IronClaw: Open-Source AI Alternative 32:45 AI as Operating System 36:15 Prompt Injection & Security in Agentic Systems 40:00 DeFi Exploits & Formal Verification 43:30 Current AI Tools & Model Access 46:15 Post-AGI Principles & Societal Changes 49:00 Closing Remarks Most people sleep on the fact that Illia co-wrote Google's foundational Transformer model paper with seven other Google researchers to allow parallel text processing using attention mechanisms instead of slow, sequential reading. | The Block | The Block Media |
Gareth Jenkinson12,785 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Did you know that Trezor invented seed phrases that over 300 million hardware wallets use today? "The seed phrase, the wallet backup, the way you write down those 12, 20, 24 words, was actually invented by Trezor, the original founders. That is BIP39." This was an absolute gem of an insight from Trezor CEO Matej Zak on our latest Chain Reaction show. Check out the full interview in the comments with myself and Robert Baggs for Cointelegraph 👇
Gareth Jenkinson67,580 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
9 months ago, Bybit suffered the largest-ever crypto heist, as hackers stole ~$1.5 billion in Ethereum (~401,000 ETH) during a routine ETH transfer. Since then, the team Safe.eth has completely overhauled its infrastructure and systems. Safe CEO spoke candidly about the incident and learnings on our latest Chain Reaction show for Cointelegraph. We now know that attackers (likely Lazarus Group) compromised a Safe{Wallet} developer machine, injecting malicious JavaScript into the UI, which tricked Bybit's multi-sig process into approving a malicious smart contract. The incident was a wake-up call for the entire cryptocurrency industry. This is a must-watch segment unpacking how Safe and wallet infrastructure providers are levelling-up to deal with the constantly evolving threats from hackers.
Gareth Jenkinson61,215 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
I care deeply about Bitcoin & wonder why the smartest protocol founders ultimately moved away from Bitcoin. I asked Charles Hoskinson why. He explains why vitalik.eth, Daniel Larimer & other Ethereum builders stopped trying to build Bitcoin-based infrastructure. Full 📺 👇
Gareth Jenkinson10,702 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
The TL;DR of the quantum threat to Bitcoin is cracking Satoshi's coins. Charles Hoskinson told Adam Back that a hard fork still looks like the only solution. Pierre Rochard recently told me Satoshi's coins should be fair game for quantum computers. Adam Back says there's a chance that Satoshi's are migrated - and privacy advancements could make that happen without anyone noticing 🤯 Our full interview for The Block is in the comments 👇
Gareth Jenkinson23,368 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Jack Mallers went viral this week for asking Michael Saylor to define mNAV at BTC Prague. This after Strategy sold bitcoin:native for the first time since launching STRC, STRD, STRK & STRF. Jack Mallers explains why he has questions around the juggernaut that Strategy has become. Jack joined me on The Starting Block for a wide ranging conversation on Bitcoin and Treasury companies. "They need to communicate to the market that it's not never sell, it's buy more than you sell." | The Block The Block Media STRIKE Twenty One |
Gareth Jenkinson16,170 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten