The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin, remains a long-running mystery. But according to a new investigation published in the New York Times, Satoshi could be Adam Back, a British cryptographer who conducted influential early research about digital assets. Back denies that he is Satoshi. People have been trying to track down the father of Bitcoin for decades, without much success. Based on Back's denial, it's not clear if the Times' tech journalist John Carreyrou, known for his reporting that took down Theranos, got much further than anyone else. Back fits the profile of the kind of person you might suspect would create the first cryptocurrency. He created Hashcash, the proof-of-work system that Satoshi used to mine Bitcoin, and he is now the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, a company building infrastructure for blockchain-based payment systems. Back even agreed with Carreyrou that he's a reasonable suspect, and it's probable that Satoshi is ' like him ' a fifty-something-year-old British cypherpunk. (In that case, yes, the use of a Japanese moniker is odd.)...

The company's Series A, which closed 17 months after its demo day presentation, was led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. It's another sign of the interest in outsourcing data centers to orbit as resource and political obstacles slow their development on Earth, but the business model depends on unproven technology and significant capital expenditure. Starcloud has now raised a total of $200 million, and launched its first satellite with an Nvidia H100 GPU in November 2025. The company will launch a more powerful version, Starcloud 2, later this year with multiple GPUs, including an Nvidia Blackwell chip and an AWS server blade, as well as a bitcoin mining computer. The company will also begin developing a data center spacecraft designed to launch from Starship, the reusable heavy lift rocket being built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Starcloud 3, as the spacecraft is named, will be a 200 kilowatt, three-ton spacecraft that fits the 'PEZ dispenser' system SpaceX designed to deploy its Starlink satellites from Starship....

This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, game rooms, and a cafeteria that grills steaks on-demand. Target apparently sees the U.S. data center construction boom as its most lucrative growth opportunity, with chief commercial officer Troy Schrenk describing it as 'the largest, most actionable pipeline I've ever seen.' Target also owns the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, which holds families detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Court filings have alleged that the center's food has had worms and mold, and that children have suffered without accommodation for allergies and special diets. Actively scaling' Fundraising' Planning your next launch'TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 delivers tactical playbooks and direct access to 1,000+ founders and investors who are building, backing, and closing.Register by March 13 to save up to $300....

Few venture capitalists have the name recognition ' or tenure ' of Tim Draper. A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry's most notable wins, including early investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Coinbase, Skype and Twitch. His career, which spans his time as founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, has also included high-profile missteps ' most notably Theranos ' underscoring the risk and volatility that goes along with making bold wagers. A frequent personality on TV and social media, Draper is also known as a relentless champion for decentralized technology and a leading voice for bitcoin and blockchain. In 2024, he launched Draper TV, a media network, where he continues to host a global pitch competition called 'Meet the Drapers.' The series, which is now entering its ninth season, invites viewers at home to invest alongside him in innovative startups. Draper exudes an almost schoolboy-like enthusiasm and passion when it comes to startups, technology, bitcoin and innovation. I recently spoke with him ' while he was sporting his favorite purple and gold bitcoin tie ' to get his thoughts on everything from his use of digital twins, how the current AI boom compares to previous cycles, and how he wishes policymakers approached tech regulation....