Lukas Hartigan is Bitcolumnist's markets and policy reporter, covering crypto prices, ETF flows, exchanges and the regulators who shape them. He grew up in South Boston in a loud Irish-American family where the dinner table doubled as a debate floor, and he still reads every SEC filing like it might start an argument. He got into crypto in 2017, when a friend would not stop talking about bitcoin over cheap pizza, and he stayed for the rulebook fights. Lukas now lives in Philadelphia, runs along the Schuylkill before the market opens, and keeps a paper notebook for every enforcement case he follows. His view: most regulatory headlines matter less than the panic suggests and more than the comments section thinks.
Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta spent about $131 billion on capex in one quarter. Microsoft still produced free cash flow. Alphabet and Meta went negative.