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Antonio Quinn

Antonio Quinn is the Director and Founder of The Chain Journal, covering the intersection of Bitcoin and global power structures — sanctions, sovereign adoption, and the political economy of sound money. His work focuses on how geopolitical fragmentation and currency instability are accelerating the adoption of decentralised money. He founded The Chain Journal to connect these themes in a rigorous, accessible, and multilingual way.

Giancarlo leaves law, not influence

Former CFTC chair Giancarlo leaves law to focus on crypto advisory

A Regulator’s Second Act Chris Giancarlo’s move out of legal practice is not just a career change. It is a signal. When a former CFTC chair who helped shape the early U.S. derivatives framework around bitcoin chooses advisory work over…

Foundry takes a slice of Zcash’s center

Foundry launches Zcash mining pool, notches 29% hashrate in first month

A quieter network, a louder signal Foundry’s rapid entry into Zcash mining is more than a headline about market share. It is a reminder that proof-of-work networks can look decentralized on paper while becoming operationally concentrated in practice. In roughly…

Crypto’s real story is flows, not noise

Here’s what happened in crypto today

The Market Beneath the Headline Crypto markets still love to present themselves as a battle between bulls and bears, but the real contest is more structural. The strongest forces right now are policy coordination, institutional access, and the slow normalization…

Bitcoin meets a wall, again

Bitcoin's struggle to build long-lasting uptrend remain: Here’s why

Why Bitcoin Cannot Clear This Zone Bitcoin is still trading like an asset that wants a breakout but has not earned one. The repeated failure to sustain moves above the $70,000 to $75,000 area matters because that zone has become…