Barry Honig: Where Vision Meets Truth and Resilience
All, Here is a quick summary of how we exposed David Hansen as a bald-faced liar. MabVax accused Barry and the other defendants of pumping-and-dumping MabVax stock. The heart of the argument was that Barry directed John O’Rourke to publish a false article about MabVax on April 8, 2015, on Seeking Alpha. The O’Rourke article […]
Read MoreDavid Hansen, former CEO of Mabvax Therapeutics, received over $40 million in investments from Barry Honig and others—investors later labeled as a “group” by the SEC. Hansen subsequently became a cooperating witness in the SEC’s case against Barry, claiming Barry exerted control over Mabvax and pressured him into accepting the group’s funding.
Read MoreThe criminal charges against Citron Research founder Andrew Left mark a spectacular reversal of fortune—the man who built a career accusing others of fraud now faces up to 365 years in prison for the very crimes he claimed to expose.
Read MoreIn the world of finance, few things are as satisfying as vindication. And few vindications are as dramatic as the one unfolding around Barry Honig—a man once painted as a villainous “pump and dump” schemer, who was the founder and financial architect behind three of the largest Bitcoin mining companies today.
Read MoreWhy early visionaries in disruptive industries are often painted as scammers—and what history teaches us about the dangerous gap between inception and vindication.
Read MoreToday, the companies Barry Honig found in the Bitcoin mining space are among the top ten in market cap for public companies. Meanwhile, Andrew Left, his most vocal accuser, is waiting for his day in federal court as he is facing securities fraud charges.
Read MoreWhen crypto historians write about Bitcoin’s institutional revolution, they’ll focus on the usual suspects: Michael Saylor’s corporate treasury strategy, Jihan Wu’s manufacturing empire, and Brian Armstrong’s trading platform. But they’ll miss the most important early players of all—the architect who built the mining companies that helped make everyone else’s success possible.
Read MoreBy early 2017, the crypto landscape looked like a battlefield after the party ended. Bitcoin had crashed from nearly $20,000 to under $7,000. ICO projects were dying faster than startups in a recession. The “hodlers” were becoming “bagholders,” and venture capitalists were quietly backing away from their blockchain investments.
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission issued a letter in February 2020, ending Barry Honig’s investigation into RIOT Blockchain. This marked the SEC’s Denver Regional Office officially closing the investigation.
Read MoreIn a dramatic courtroom reversal that exposes the hollow foundations of a multi-year legal vendetta, MabVax Therapeutics CEO David Hansen was caught red-handed lying under oath—forced to admit that the very “false” statements he claimed were used to pump and dump his company’s stock were actually his own words, presented by him to investors just weeks earlier.
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