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Joe Weisenthal

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89 articles accelerating

Nine stories in 2025 Q1 made crypto policy—especially Trump’s proposed US strategic reserve—the clearest recent peak in coverage tied to Joe Weisenthal.

Who they are

Joe Weisenthal appears in the coverage as a Bloomberg markets journalist and a host of Bloomberg Odd Lots alongside Tracy Alloway, connecting technology, crypto, macroeconomics, and market-structure stories. He is also associated with @thestalwart and appears directly in an Odd Lots Q&A with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks.

The recent arc

Coverage reached its all-time quarterly high in 2025 Q1, driven most visibly by the shift of crypto from a market story into a US policy story. Headlines on Trump naming Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano for a strategic crypto reserve, followed by his executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile, put Bitcoin and the US government at the center of the arc.

The subsequent coverage widened from digital assets to political economy and technology-market consequences: US-China tariff relief, potential semiconductor tariffs, the Trump-Elon Musk rupture over government contracts, and fundraising by Kalshi and Polymarket. Later appearances include Bitcoin’s sharp November fall, Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, research questioning AI coding-tool productivity, and a Claude vending-machine experiment, suggesting a broader focus on how policy and hype translate into market and operational outcomes.

The tension

A recurring tension is between financial innovation and the institutions meant to govern or protect market participants. Weisenthal’s stated skepticism about removing accredited-investor rules after the SPAC boom aligns with coverage of Bitcoin reserves, Binance, prediction-market financing, and Trump-linked crypto developments: access and legitimization may expand, but the risks to retail participants and market integrity remain unresolved.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, Weisenthal’s coverage will remain useful as a lens on the convergence of Washington policy, speculative markets, and technology platforms rather than as separate beats. The open question is whether government recognition of digital assets and shifting trade policy produce more durable market infrastructure, or amplify the volatility and retail-investor hazards reflected in the stories.

Joe Weisenthal has appeared in 89 articles since 2017-10. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Trump, Bitcoin, U.S., American.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-10-24
Wall Street Journal 35 related

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have anything to do with ...

2023-10-12
Bloomberg 27 related

US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more

Caroline testified that SBF ordered her to use FTX customer funds to cover up for Alameda's losses — and to lie to lenders about it.  She was in a “constant state of dread” about the looming liquidity...

2023-06-06
New York Times 34 related

The SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing the company of mishandling billions in customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more

Can Pence stand with — and apart — from Trump? Tyler Pearson / DL News : Crypto traders lose $320m in Binance-driven plunge, judge allows bankrupt Genesis mediation extension Christian Encila / NewsBT...

2023-05-02
Financial Times 30 related

The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic Bank, which was a tad bigger than SVB and had $100B+ in outflows

now JPMorgan Chase's — uninsured depositors is Sen. Dianne Feinstein who, according to her latest financial disclosure, had between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in a First Republic account. Last week, a ...

2023-03-01
New York Magazine 1 related

A profile of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, who served six months under house arrest for US Bank Secrecy Act violations; sources say he still controls BitMEX

and his huge collection of stuffed animals — during his house arrest in Miami: “Shit happens. Moved on,” he says. New profile out in the latest issue of @NYMag: https://nymag.com/... Joe Weisenthal / ...

2023-01-13
Axios 11 related

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty

think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...

2022-09-07
CoinDesk

Filing: Vermont says Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky repeatedly misled investors about the lender's finances and used its own CEL token to bolster its balance sheet

The crypto lender admitted in a recent creditor call that it could not earn enough revenue to support its yields, the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation said. Tweets: @davidzmorris , @ldrogen ...

2022-07-31
Mashable

Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, which Lime calls “a false claim”; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium

Matt Binder / Mashable : Tweets: @ahcastor , @mattbinder , @thestalwart , @katebevan , @carnage4life , @can , @dcseifert , @kwerb , @chafkin , @mattbinder , @mattbinder , @timfernholz , and @silverma...

2022-07-21
Bloomberg

Jason Calacanis says litigation, and possibly criminal charges, await the companies and “grifting” VCs that knowingly flipped crypto tokens to retail investors

Watch out venture capital, the regulators are coming.  —  That's the warning from long-time angel investor Jason Calacanis … Tweets: @alex , @tracyalloway , @mdudas , @thestalwart , @nouriel , @mliebr...

2019-06-05
CoinDesk 23 related

SEC is suing Kik for allegedly running an unregistered securities sale when it launched an ICO for its Kin token in 2017

Following the announcement of a lawsuit … Adrian Barkley / Crypto Daily : How Valid Is The SECs Suit Against Kik? Jasmine Solana / CoinGeek : SEC lawsuit accuses Kik of conducting illegal $100M ICO Te...

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