Kyle Torpey
Kyle Torpey is a Bitcoin-focused crypto writer at Gizmodo whose coverage follows how digital money collides with politics, regulation, and the systems that run global markets and the internet. He has covered Bitcoin and crypto for more than a decade and has focused on Bitcoin specifically since 2014. Alongside his reporting, he works as an independent writer, researcher, analyst, and content strategist, with a body of work centered on Bitcoin research and analysis.
Bitcoin and the Power Structures Around It
Torpey’s Gizmodo coverage tracks how crypto money flows through political campaigns, lobbying operations, and regulatory fights. He reports on stories such as crypto companies pouring $189 million into the 2026 midterm elections, showing how the industry now outspends sectors like Big Tech and fossil fuels to shape Congress and lock in favorable rules.
He writes about Donald Trump’s massive crypto fortune and the losses faced by investors in related schemes, linking personal wealth, political branding, and market outcomes.
His work includes polling on public trust in Trump’s crypto agenda, documenting that a majority of Americans do not trust him on the issue despite sustained pro-crypto messaging. Torpey also covers federal debates over stablecoins, including plans by regulators to allow them to keep running without stringent identity checks, stressing the friction between financial innovation and traditional banking controls. Across these pieces, he treats Bitcoin and crypto as tools used by campaigns, regulators, and corporate interests, not just as speculative assets.
Markets, Infrastructure, and Technical Risk
A second strand of Torpey’s beat focuses on the machinery beneath modern crypto markets - miners, data centers, quantum risk, and new financial products. He reports on Bitcoin miners pivoting their operations into data centers that can host AI workloads, highlighting deals such as a 20-year lease with Anthropic that reframes mining infrastructure as general-purpose compute. His coverage of Bitcoin ETFs follows price slumps and Wall Street’s preparations for a new wave of crypto investment products, showing how traditional finance absorbs Bitcoin volatility.
Torpey writes on stablecoins like Open Standard and StableChain, explaining how collaborations between Big Tech and Wall Street are designed to challenge incumbents such as Circle and Tether and how newer systems diverge from Bitcoin’s original promise through centralization. Technical risk runs through his reporting, including detailed pieces on Coinbase’s preparations for potential quantum computing attacks on crypto, and the broader implications for long-term security of digital assets. He also covers Bitcoin fork seasons and airdrops, documenting how protocol changes and derivative tokens create new incentives and stresses in the ecosystem.
In his work on AI and crypto, he examines research showing AI systems getting better at hacking smart contracts and explores findings that most Bitcoin users still treat it primarily as a long-term store of value.
Crime, Exploits, and the Human Cost of Crypto
Torpey frequently reports on the darker edges of the crypto economy, where code and markets intersect with crime and exploitation. He has written about the infamous front-running bot “Jaredfromsubway,” explaining how its “sandwich attacks” exploited DeFi traders before being tricked and drained for $7.5 million, and what that incident reveals about automated predation in on-chain markets. His coverage of a $120 million crypto hack framed as an “Office Space”-style exploit breaks down how attackers siphon funds from complex software ecosystems while public narratives reduce the story to pop-culture shorthand. He also writes beyond strictly financial crime into cases like the darknet dealer “DaddyBiden,” who sold fake Adderall laced with meth and completed thousands of online sales, tying the story back to the role of digital payment systems and anonymous marketplaces.
Across these pieces, Torpey links technical mechanisms - bots, smart contracts, exchange infrastructure - to real-world victims, showing how design decisions and weak controls translate into losses for ordinary participants.
Long-Running Bitcoin Focus Beyond Gizmodo
Torpey’s specialization predates his tenure at Gizmodo and underpins the way he covers the crypto beat. He has worked for years as a writer and analyst dedicated to Bitcoin, maintaining a professional focus on the asset’s economic design, political implications, and technical evolution. His writings have been featured in major business and technology publications, including outlets such as Forbes, Fortune, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, Business Insider, Wired, Investopedia, and Yahoo Finance.
On X, he presents his work explicitly as Bitcoin research and analysis and highlights that his insights have been published across a wide range of mainstream and specialist media. This long-running emphasis on Bitcoin allows him to place current stories - civil wars in the Bitcoin community, controversial protocol changes, and arguments over core principles - within a decade of prior disputes and ideological battles.
The result is coverage that treats each news event as part of an ongoing story about what Bitcoin is for, who controls it, and how far the broader crypto industry has moved from its original ideals.
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