The buy-now, pay-later business is facing some adult challenges, including tougher regulation and competition from big-bank credit card issuers which are beginning to play on its turf. Today's daily cover (by me😁): forbes.com/sites/veronica…

Brat summer isn't over yet

Just catching up on the latest VC vs VC spat. Think I'll wait until the story comes out. Because, you know, doing anything else would be literally ignorant.

Now that "the story" is out, a few thoughts: 1/ I think it's fair to analyze why high-profile, big-money donors "switch sides" in politics 2/ Don't think this story answers its headline question of why they did so (beyond what we already know about Ben/Marc deciding "little

Hello world! My last day at Forbes was Friday 8/16. I'm still covering fintech/crypto/tech, and have some freelance work lined up, so please stay in touch!

I want to write a piece about the myth of transferable skills and how "relevant" work experience has become so unbelievably specific that more and more people are confined to the career path they got on at the beginning of their adulthood.

One more Forbes story: the second-only time a16z has led three rounds in a crypto fund. The first was Coinbase, and now the firm has done it again with Story Protocol: forbes.com/sites/veronica… Thank you to Nina Bambysheva for working on this with me 🙏

This week is my first with Bloomberg where I'll be covering fintech, payments and crypto! Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal: emason.93

I cannot emphasize enough how huge of a mistake it was to go to journalism graduate school. Don't do it!!!

Scam projects targeting within the WLFi Telegram group…

Also - I'm more a writer than anything, and my responsibilities are primarily to write for the site, not cast experts for the podcast.

In founder mode (sleeping on the floor for the third night straight)

Trump briefly reiterated his goal of making the US a world leader in cryptocurrency and bitcoin at the Economic Club of New York Thursday unchainedcrypto.com/trump-promises… #DonaldTrump #Crypto #Bitcoin The Economic Club of New York

Former president Donald J. Trump vowed to “embrace” crypto and bitcoin in an economic policy speech on Thursday. But he didn’t mention crypto again in his entire hourlong remarks. Veronica 💫 reports unchainedcrypto.com/trump-promises…

The Trump family DeFi project, World Liberty Financial, could attract some of the best hackers in the world - not just those money-motivated, but also those targeting it because of political motivations. unchainedcrypto.com/trumps-new-def… #trump #bitcoin #worldlibertyfinancial

Looking to speak to cybersecurity experts about telegram