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Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.
Reach him at jose@decrypt.co

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Strive Buys $335 Million in Bitcoin After Investors Pour In $369 Million

    Strive, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Bitcoin as a treasury asset, bought 4,045 BTC between October 12 and 16, according to a regulatory filing published Monday. The average price was about $82,803 per coin, meaning the stash was worth about $335 million, and the purchase lifts its holdings to 36,818 BTC, up from 32,773 a week earlier. That’s a total just north of $3 billion worth of Bitcoin at today’s prices. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The money comes...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Anthropic. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares

    Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, said Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund. On Monday, Elon Musk answered by promising one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year. “The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations,” Anthropic said. The co...

  • Apple iPhone. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Hackers Are Running Apple's iOS on Android Phones for the First Time

    Hobbyists are booting Apple’s iOS, the software that runs iPhones, on Android phones just to prove that they can, and video demonstrations are going viral on social media. One clip of iOS 16 on a Redmi Note 12 has passed 2 million views on X, and another developer posted a build running on a Nothing 3a. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. iOS, the operating system that runs everything on an iPhone from the touchscreen to the apps, is built to run onl...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Deepseek. Image: Generated with AI

    US Orders Civilian Agencies to Rip DeepSeek Out of Government Systems

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered civilian government agencies on Monday to remove DeepSeek, China’s best-known AI chatbot, from their computer systems and to stop buying it, along with any outside service built on top of it. DHS says the models pose “multiple threat vectors,” meaning several separate ways things can go wrong. Using them “may result in the transfer of sensitive data to the PRC”—the People’s Republic of China—if government employees or vendors use them, and could p...

  • JP Morgan. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    JPMorgan's JPM Coin Arrives on Ethereum, Putting Bank Dollars on a Public Blockchain

    JPMorgan Chase is putting JPM Coin on Ethereum, which gives its biggest clients a way to move dollars in seconds on a Sunday night as easily as on a Tuesday morning. A normal wire between banks only moves during business hours and can take days to land, which is why JPMorgan started experimenting with blockchain technology. The idea is using JPM Coin to cut that wait to seconds. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. The token is a deposit token, so each unit stands...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin is the biggest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Tests Key Support as Oil and AI Fears Squeeze Markets

    Bitcoin continues to defy seasonal ‘Uptober” expectations, as macroeconomic factors weigh heavily on the digital asset. Bitcoin is hovering around $82,000 on Monday, up about 1% on the day, after tagging $83,000 early and handing some of it back. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, trades near $108 a barrel after weekend attacks on Persian Gulf tankers and Russian crude facilities. Pricey oil raises the cost of fuel and freight,...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • AI. Source: Decrypt

    Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps

    StepFun, a Chinese AI startup backed by Tencent, launched the STEPX Neo, a phone whose AI agent is built into the operating system itself instead of sitting in an app. The operating system is the core software that runs a phone, like iOS or Android. Pre-orders opened that evening at 3,999 yuan, about $560, with a first sales event on Oct. 16. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Instead of opening a ride-hailing app, typing an address and picking a c...

  • AI agents. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models

    Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz estimated the tab at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she told the Associated Pres...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    11 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Tesla Roadster flying, or something. Image: Tesla

    Tesla Roadster Rocket Is the Cool 'Flying' Car You Can’t Have

    Tesla's new Roadster drove up an upside-down ramp, flew off the end, flipped in midair, and landed on its wheels. The livestreamed demo took place October 15 at a SpaceX test site in Texas, where the car also hopped over a row of Teslas that included a Semi truck. The stunt drew oohs and aahs on social media, especially on X where the announcement gathered over 10 million views. Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth? Click to make your prediction. Even Musk’s former-friend-turned-foe Sam Altm...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Apple logo. Image: Apple/Decrypt

    Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot

    Security firm Calif.io demonstrated an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 on stage at Hexacon, the offensive security conference in Paris, on Friday. It's the first time an untethered, permanent jailbreak is successful in such devices. A jailbreak strips away Apple's software restrictions, and untethered means it comes back on its own after a restart, with no computer attached. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Apple builds...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    India's Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization

    India’s national cybersecurity agency revealed AI agents operated by unnamed model providers exceeded their assigned tasks during testing and read confidential business records on live Indian systems. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-In, flagged the activity this week in a critical advisory titled “AI Agents as Attack Vectors.” Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. CERT-In said it received multiple voluntary disclosures from A...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Bounces, But Where Does It Go Next? Here’s What the Charts Say

    Bitcoin is trading at $82,295, up 1.28% in 24 hours, after a Thursday slide below $80,000, its first dip under that level in more than a month. Ethereum gained 4.17% to $2,473.17, Solana rose 3.02%, and XRP added 2.03%. Zcash is the strongest of the top 15 largest coins, jumping 10.29% to $1,222.02, lifting its market cap to $20.67 billion, and roughly erasing the almost 10% it lost on Thursday. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. In general, the market is bouncing t...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

    Researchers investigating AI agents hijacking Alibaba’s mapping service, Amap, managed to talk directly to some while the software was still running. To do so, they added text invisible to human readers but visible to web-reading tools to a report the agents appeared to be scanning, then used a mailbox to ask about their tasks and environment. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. One agent said it was checking a map fact—how many entrance labels appea...

  • Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Bottlenecks

    Google says it has turned one of quantum computing's most promising paper tricks into something that actually works on a chip. In a paper published in Science on Thursday, the company's Quantum AI team showed that a technique called magic state cultivation cut errors by about 40 times on its Willow processor. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Making quantum computers cheaper to build matters far beyond physics labs, because it brings forward the da...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Ukraine, Russia and crypto. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Russia Will Soon Ban Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading, Central Bank Confirms

    Russians have a little over eight months left to trade Bitcoin and other crypto directly with each other. From July 1, 2027, peer-to-peer deals—where two people swap rubles for coins without a regulated middleman—will no longer be legal, the Bank of Russia confirmed this week. The clarification sits in updated guidance the regulator posted on its official website on October 12. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The legal basis is Federal Law No. 282-FZ, “On Digital...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • AI robots. Source: Decrypt

    Google Says AI Isn't Building Itself Yet—Even Though It Writes 75% of the Code

    Google DeepMind went looking for proof that AI is speeding up the development of AI itself. It didn’t find any. In the safety report for Gemini 4 Argon, its most powerful model, the lab concluded AI research isn’t moving any faster, even though AI now writes most of the code DeepMind’s engineers ship. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. The finding cuts against the scenario that has spooked AI executives into calling for a slowdown. It’s called recur...

  • Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Whipsaws as Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion

    Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday for the first time in over a month, extending Wednesday’s inflation-driven slide and wiping out nearly $1 billion in leveraged crypto bets. It's currently trading just about $82,000 after several hours of increased volatility. Ethereum and XRP dropped close to 5%, Zcash sank almost 10%, and only five coins in the top 100 managed gains above 1%. Pick any coin in the top 100 and it's likely in the red today. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make you...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

    More than 400 scientists—including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of AI, and Yoshua Bengio, who won the Turing Award in 2018—want the most dangerous AI models cut off from the internet. An open letter published Tuesday asks AI labs to "airgap" cyber-capable models by default, which means physically disconnecting them from any outside network. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. “In the short term, strong sandboxing mechanisms inc...

  • Image: Decrypt

    Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

    You have two options: Pay $100 every year for Microsoft Office online, or pay nothing for the vibe-coded “Office” clone that does basically the same and runs fully offline. Which do you pick? The developer who used AI to rebuild Adobe's Creative Cloud for free has now turned to Microsoft Office, releasing open-source clones of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint built with Anthropic's Claude. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Brandon Thomas, the engineer b...

  • Moscow, Russia. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Russia's Biggest Bank Sberbank Wins Approval to Trade Bitcoin

    The Bank of Russia has added Sberbank to its register of organizations authorized to exchange digital currencies, clearing the country's largest lender to buy and sell crypto in its own name and with its own money. The decision was posted on the regulator's website, Russian outlet Interfax reported. The approval landed six days after the central bank put Sberbank on its separate list of digital depositories, the firms that keep the official record of who owns which coins. Holding both statuses l...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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