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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

  • Would this AI fool you? Image: Tavus AI

    This AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking Its Human, Company Says

    AI startup Tavus says its new model, Griffin, convinced 48% of the people who talked to it on a live video call that they were speaking with a real human. The company unveiled it on October 1 and calls it the first Human Interaction Model, an AI built to understand and generate face-to-face conversation, paying attention to expressions and pauses as well as words. Its previous system scored 2.4% on the same test. Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. Griffin-Lite, the v...

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Nvidia Hits Record High as Market Value Reaches $5.7 Trillion

    Nvidia stock hit a record high on Friday, reaching $237.88 in morning trading and lifting the chipmaker's market value to roughly $5.7 trillion. It's the first record since May. Market value, or market cap, is the share price multiplied by every share in existence. Think of it as the price tag on the entire company. Nvidia's is now the largest of any business on Earth. Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. Nvidia was worth $1.18 trillion in August 2023, at that point t...

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

    Bitcoin Heads Higher on Macro Moves: Where Does BTC Go Next?

    Bad news for the economy is, once again, good news for risk assets. The U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, far below the 84,000 economists expected. The two previous months were revised down by a combined 60,000, and unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Wall Street's reading: the pressure to keep hiking rates just eased, which generally bodes well for risk assets like Bitcoin. The lar...

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

    Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over

    Zcash is having a rough Thursday. ZEC is trading at $1,333.50, down 7.29% on the day, with about three hours left before the daily candle closes. That puts the privacy coin roughly 21% below the $1,698.00 peak it hit in late September. It also shows how far ZEC had run: the coin climbed about 253% from a $480.72 base to that high. Myriad: Where does XRP go next? Click to make your prediction. The wider market isn't offering a lifeline. Bitcoin spiked to $85,600 on Wednesday after softer-than-exp...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Reddit. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers

    Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027. “In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said. CS2 knife index next move:...

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Decrypt/Village Global

    OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning

    OpenAI claims to have shut down a coordinated effort to copy the way its AI models think, and it traces a core cluster of that activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese startup behind the Kimi chatbot. The campaign began on July 1, according to OpenAI. On July 24 and 25 alone, it logged 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users, part of a wider cluster of over 15,000 users. OpenAI says it fully disrupted the activity by July 28. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Clic...

  • Meta. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent

    Meta says its Muse AI agent can't read your Messages on a Mac unless you let it, disputing an account from a tech journalist last week who said Muse was all up in his iMessages without permission. Andy Stone, the company's head of communications, said Wednesday on X that the integration is "entirely opt-in." Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. “It can't read your Messages unless you do this. And it can be revoked at any time,” he wrote. Two switches have to be on,...

  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group

    OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, per the Wall Street Journal. An OpenAI spokesperson said the three violated company policies on accessing and handling sensitive information. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. OpenAI hasn't said what information changed hands, which organization received it, or who the three people are. Speculation filled the gap fa...

  • Bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    It's the Start of Uptober. Will Bitcoin Live Up to It?

    It’s the start of October, otherwise known as “Uptober” in crypto circles for its historically stellar market performance, marking the end of “Red September”—which turned out not to be so red after all. So how will Bitcoin fare? Bitcoin is starting October at $83,823, up 0.28% on the day, after a September that was on pace to be its best on record—until the last moment. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Bitcoin was up 7.33% for the month, with one trading day left...

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    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • A hacker. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker

    Near Intents, a tool for swapping crypto across different blockchains, stopped service on Thursday after an attacker drained about $3.8 million from it. The team says a bug in how its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer talks to the main smart contract—the self-running code that holds user funds—opened the door. “Earlier today NEAR Intents services were stopped after a security incident was detected. The incident was caused by a bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure interaction wit...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity

    Gemini 4 is finally here, one week after the release of Claude Opus 5.5 and one day after GPT 6.1 Sol, proving American labs are very much committed to slowing down AI development. Please excuse our sarcasm. Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, calling it its frontier model, meaning its most capable, for coding, office work and cyber defense. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. On DeepSWE v1.1, a test of whether an AI can finish long, messy, real-world softwar...

  • Dogecoin is the crypto market's leading meme coin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet

    DogeOS opened the public testnet for its Dogecoin application layer on Wednesday, per its press release. A testnet is a trial version of a network, where developers test apps before real money is involved. Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus created Dogecoin in 2013 as a joke. It works as a peer-to-peer digital currency. Since then it has evolved quite a lot, becoming a multi-billion dollar network, a social symbol, and a serious investment for some people with deep pockets. Myriad: Where does XRP...

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    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • The FBI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    FBI Tells Its Employees to Assume Hackers Have Their Personal Data

    The FBI has told its own employees to assume hackers stole their personal information, according to an internal memo reported this week by Reuters. The bureau is working from the premise that data on every staffer may be out, after a claimed breach of its jobs site, FBIjobs.gov. The group claiming credit is ShinyHunters, a cybercrime crew that says it holds data on almost all FBI agents and everyone who applied for an FBI job. It puts the haul at 2 to 3 terabytes, including names, phone numbers,...

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    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Hacker. Image: Shuttertock/Decrypt

    Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps

    The hacker who drained $387.5 million from crypto exchange Bitget has started hiding some of the loot inside Zcash's private pool. On-chain investigator ZachXBT said Wednesday that the attacker began moving about 2,700 ZEC—roughly $3.8 million—into Ironwood, a shielded pool on the privacy-focused Zcash blockchain. A shielded pool is a part of the Zcash network that encrypts the sender, the receiver, and the amount, so nobody can follow the money once it goes in. Ironwood launched July 28 to repl...

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    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Donald Trump in Minecraft. Image created by Decrypt using AI

    US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret

    Ask the U.S. government's brand-new AI chatbot about Minecraft, and it stops sounding like a help desk. It starts sounding like it's having an existential crisis. The bot lives at America.gov, which launched on Tuesday. FedScoop reported that it brings together information from roughly 29,000 government websites, so users can ask about things like booking a campsite, getting a passport, or replacing a Social Security card. Myriad: Who wins the ESL Pro League? Click to make your prediction. Ment...

  • Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally

    Bitcoin is grinding higher, and the ETF buyers keep showing up. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $66.19 million on Tuesday, their ninth straight session of net inflows, according to Decrypt’s Bitcoin ETF tracker. Bitcoin changed hands near $84,400 on Wednesday, up roughly 1% on the day, recovering Monday’s losses. Myriad: When will Bitcoin hit a new all-time high? Click to make your prediction. The run began on Sept. 17 and has pulled in about $3.08 billion, based on Decrypt data. That edges out A...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Jumps on Cool PCE Inflation Data as Bond Yields Hit 20-Year Highs

    Bitcoin is doing something Wall Street can't right now: staying calm. The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, the PCE index, rose 0.3% in August and 3.4% from a year earlier, below the 0.4% and 3.7% economists expected. Core PCE, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2% on the month and 3.0% annually, against forecasts of 0.3% and 3.3%. Myriad: When will Bitcoin hit a new all-time high? Click to make your prediction. Bitcoin reacted, pushing above $85,000 to a high of...

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

    Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August

    Bitwise began trading its Near ETF on Tuesday, giving U.S. investors a way to bet on the AI-focused Near blockchain from an ordinary brokerage account. The fund trades on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR and charges a 0.75% annual fee, according to Bitwise. Bitwise calls it the first spot Near fund in the U.S. "Spot" means the fund holds actual Near tokens rather than futures contracts, which are bets on where the price goes next. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction....

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

    Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion

    Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025, according to a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The company behind the Claude chatbot wants to go public at a valuation above $2 trillion. Both numbers sit in the same document. So does a warning that its own AI models could pose existential risks to humanity. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. An IPO is the moment a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. The prospectus is the disclosure...

  • Sony PlayStation 5. Image: Triyansh Gill on Unsplash/Decrypt

    Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games

    Someone finally did it. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and a few seconds. It comes at an interesting time for the company, just weeks removed from Sony's admission in court that its players don't actually own the games they buy digitally. Myriad: Who wins the ESL Pro League? Click to make your prediction. The recipe, posted on X by Nathan Fargo and shared by console scene figure ApolloHB, consists o...

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    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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