Ryan
Selkis
stepped
down
as
CEO
of
Messari,
the
crypto
data
and
research
firm
he
co-founded,
following
a
series
of
inflammatory
tweets
about
politics,
civil
war
and
his
desire
for
an
immigrant
to
get
expelled
from
the
country.
He
announced
his
departure
Friday
on
X,
the
social
media
platform
where
he
pumped
out
a
flood
of
controversial
messages
this
week.
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Hacked
for
$230M;
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Cuban,
Vitalik
Buterin
Speak
Up
on
Crypto
and
Politics
“This
week
was
the
first
week
in
6.5
years
that
my
politics
and
rhetoric
put
the
team
in
[harm’s]
way,”
he
wrote.
“As
such,
I
have
decided
to
step
aside
as
CEO.”
Never
a
stranger
to
launching
insults
on
X,
he
amped
up
his
comments
after
last
weekend’s
assassination
attempt
on
Donald
Trump.
“Anyone
that
votes
against
Trump
at
this
point
can
die
in
a
f*cking
fire,”
he
posted
on
X
the
afternoon
of
the
shooting.
“Literal
war.”
He
also
told
an
immigrant
via
X:
“I
hope
we
send
you
back.
…
You
are
not
entitled
to
citizenship.
I
hope
it
stays
that
way.”
On
Friday,
as
he
announced
his
resignation,
Selkis
said
that
following
the
attempt
on
Trump’s
life,
he
had
“been
disgusted
at
the
media
and
administration’s
abject
failures
at
pressing
for
answers
in
the
attack’s
aftermath,
as
well
as
their
failure
to
tamp
down
divisive
rhetoric
that
contributed
to
the
attack
in
the
first
place.”
In
addition
to
building
Messari,
Selkis
laid
much
of
the
groundwork
for
the
crypto
industry’s
political
fundraising
in
the
U.S.
this
year.
He
is
a
former
CEO
of
CoinDesk.
A
decade
ago,
as
an
independent
blogger,
Selkis
published
documents
revealing
the
insolvency
of
Mt.
Gox,
the
crypto
exchange
that
later
went
bankrupt.
Messari
said
Friday
that
Chief
Revenue
Officer
Eric
Turner
will
serve
as
interim
CEO.
“Ryan
recently
let
us
know
of
his
decision
to
step
back
from
an
operational
role
as
the
CEO
of
Messari
so
that
he
can
focus
his
time
fully
on
crypto
policy
and
national
issues
of
importance
to
him,”
the
company
posted
on
X.
Selkis
was
back
tweeting
about
“national
issues
of
importance
to
him”
right
after
quitting.
“I
beat
@JoeBiden.
Again,”
he
wrote.
Marc
Hochstein
contributed
to
this
story.
UPDATE
(July
19,
2024,
15:52
UTC):
Adds
another
tweet
from
Ryan
Selkis.
UPDATE
(July
19,
2024,
16:41
UTC):
Adds
background
on
Ryan
Selkis.
