Materials for journalists, producers, and documentarians covering the Joby Weeks story.
Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks is an American blockchain adviser, Bitcoin pioneer, and philanthropist. Great-great-grandson of U.S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks. Arrested at a Tony Robbins event in 2019 as a BitClub promoter; held under home incarceration for six years without trial.
Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks is an internationally recognized blockchain adviser, technology investor, libertarian activist, and philanthropist. The great-great-grandson of a U.S. Secretary of War and great-grandson of a U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Joby became a self-made millionaire at age twenty-two and has traveled to over 170 countries. He was made Prime Minister of the sovereign state of Pontinha, where he established Bitcoin as the national currency — the first country on Earth to do so — and is a founding father of Liberland. He was arrested in December 2019 at a Tony Robbins leadership event in West Palm Beach on charges related to the BitClub Network, where he served as a promoter, advisor, and equipment vendor. He has been under federal home incarceration for six years. He has yet to stand trial.
Case: U.S. v. Weeks, 2:19-cr-877 (D.N.J.) · 9:19-mj-8526 (S.D. Fla.)
Arrested: Dec 10, 2019, West Palm Beach, FL
Plea: November 5, 2020 — tax & conspiracy
Status: Home incarceration, six years and counting. No trial.
Role: Promoter, advisor, equipment vendor (not founder or operator of BitClub).
"The craziest lawfare story ever told." — Mikki Willis, director of Plandemic
"I harmed no one. I created no victims." — Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks
"He lives a life you only hear about in whispers." — Weeks Abroad documentary
The United States vs. Joby Weeks — docu-series directed by Shawn Stone (son of Oliver Stone). In production.
FREE JOBY — feature film, endorsed by Mikki Willis. In development.
Weeks Abroad — completed travel documentary series, produced by Korey Rowe (director of Loose Change). Eight terabytes of BitClub and travel footage archived.
High-resolution photography, broadcast-quality B-roll, and approved headshots available on request.
Interview availability is coordinated through the press contact below.
• Denver Westword — Feature coverage of the BitClub case and Weeks's role
• CBS Colorado — News coverage of the arrest
• NBC News — Reporting on the BitClub prosecutions
• Bitcoin Daily Mag — "Speaking Truth to Power: The Persecution of Joby Weeks"
• Stocktwits — "Silenced: The Joby Weeks Case and the Erosion of First Amendment Rights"
• The New York Times — Prior coverage of Weeks on the SIM-swap hacker case (2018)
• Forbes — Prior coverage on crypto hacks involving Weeks