A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades
XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune X: @hsu_steve and @tonytassell X: Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve : Alex Gerko in FT. Not on X anym...
London-based Verne Global, which provides data center tech for high performance computing, raises $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus
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Julian Assange steps down as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks but retains publisher title, appoints Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson to replace him
Julian Assange has stepped aside as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, with the group saying his departure was “due to the extraordinary circumstances” …
Ross Ulbricht appeals Silk Road ruling; court brief focuses on corrupt agents, omits mention of seizure of Icelandic servers and theory that FBI hacked servers
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard : Tweets: @derektmead and @sarahjeong Tweets: @derektmead : Were the Silk Road's Iceland servers seized illegally? The gov's explanation didn't add up, but now we'll never k...