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Is Custodia a ‘Sacrificial Lamb’ to the Fed’s War on Crypto Banking?
Narrative Watch: Hong Kong Nudges Towards Legalizing Crypto Trading for Retail
How to Fight Back Against Rogue Regulators
Why the Newly Proposed Custody Role Could Represent a De Facto Ban on Crypto
Is the SEC’s Terra Lawsuit Trying to Set Precedent That Stablecoins are Securities?
Why Bitcoin Rallied 11% on Wednesday
Regulators Only Have Themselves to Blame for Crypto Not Being Better Regulated
Slightly Hot Inflation Print Probably Won’t Change the Fed’s Perspective
The Latest Front in the Crypto Wars Is Binance-Paxos and BUSD
Are Ordinals Sneakily a Boon to Bitcoin Security?
‘A Paternalistic and Lazy Regulator’: What the SEC-Kraken Staking Settlement Means for Crypto
Python Politics Part 2: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Begins
Python Politics Part 1: The US Government's Slow Squeeze on Crypto via the Banking System
Here Comes ‘Britcoin’
The Fed’s Hawkish Walk Back
Would a Genesis/DCG Deal With Creditors End the Crypto Contagion?
Why Crypto Fundraising Could Be in for a Painful Winter
The Tragedy of Lebanon’s Currency Devaluation
Is the Narrative Around ESG and Bitcoin Mining Shifting?
Jerome Powell Finally Believes He Might Actually Get His Soft Landing
A Primer on the Debate Around Ordinal Inscriptions, aka Bitcoin NFTs
Independent Examiner Excoriates Celsius as a Ponzi
Hawks vs. Bulls: The Fed Clashes With Optimistic Investors
Is 2023 the Year the US Gets Serious About Protecting Privacy?
What’s Next for NFTs?
Commingling Customer Funds? Binance Under Scrutiny for B-Token Wallet
‘We Want to Make Sure America Is the Place for Innovation in FinTech’
Here Comes Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining
Up 40% YTD, Bitcoin Is 2023’s Best-Performing Asset
Does Crypto Have a Banking Problem?
The Future of Crypto Isn’t With Wall Street
What Davos Thinks of Crypto
Genesis Files for Chapter 11
Would a Genesis Bankruptcy Actually Be Good for Crypto?
Bitz Who Now? Department of Justice Takes Down Russian Exchange Bitzlato
Bitcoin at $21K: Bull Trap or Ooo Baby We're Back?
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz 10 Years Later
The SEC Sues Gemini/Genesis as SBF Starts a Blog
How Big a Deal Was Binance’s Previous $1B BUSD Collateral Gap?
Will Negative Inflation Prompt a Shift in Fed Policy?
DCG Responds as Gemini Accuses Company of Fraud
The Fed’s Interest Rate Message Is Clear: Get to 5% and Keep It There
The SEC and DOJ Are Reportedly Investigating DCG
Where Bitcoin Mining Goes From Here
Is Political Gridlock Good for Crypto?
The Crypto Reckoning Continues
The Fed Is Scared of Stock Market Animal Spirits
SBF Pleads Not Guilty; Trial Set for October
On Bitcoin’s 14th Birthday, the Gemini-DCG War of Words Heats Up
Bitcoin Is Optimism, With Alex Gladstein
Mike Dudas on Crypto Community Resilience
Muneeb Ali on the Future of Bitcoin Building
Sam Abbassi on Why Proof of Reserves Matters Now
The New Crypto Policy Blueprint, With Kristin Smith
Why Bitcoin Is Thriving, With Alyse Killeen
The Top 10 Things That Happened in Bitcoin 2022
Ryan Selkis on the Crypto Outlook for 2023
Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison Plead Guilty to Fraud as SBF Lands In US
Why Are a Dead Guy's Crypto Coins Moving?
Elon Bans Journalists, Kills Spaces and Asks if He Should Quit
Audit Firms Don’t Want to Work With Crypto Companies, and That’s a Problem
What ChatGPT Might Mean for Web3
Exchange Fears Roil Crypto Following SBF’s Arrest
Trump NFTs Sell Out In Hours
Jerome Powell Says ‘More Work to Be Done’ as FOMC Hikes Rates 50 Basis Points
For Once, a Positive Inflation Surprise
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested for Wire Fraud and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
SBF ‘Loaned’ the CEO of The Block $43M
Why Is Bitcoin Dominance So Much Lower Than in Previous Bear Markets?
Congressman Who Called Bitcoin an ‘Unstoppable Force’ to Become House Financial Services Committee Chair
2022’s Most Influential Bitcoiners
Sherrod Brown Tells SBF, ‘Show Up or Get Subpoenaed’
The White-Collar Recession
Goldman’s Going on a Crypto Company Buying Spree, but Is That Good for Crypto?
SBF Declines a Congressional Invite; Alameda CEO Is Seen in New York City
Bitcoin and Opting Out of the IMF & World Bank
Market Whiplash as Jobs Report Undermines Powell’s Less Hawkish Speech
Apple’s Monopoly App Store Tax Coming to Crypto?
Will Sam’s Frenetic Media Tour Save Him or Damn Him?
Post-FTX, India and Europe Push Ahead With CBDCs
Fed Officials Say Interest Rates to Remain Higher for Longer
BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy, Becoming Latest FTX Domino
The Progressive Case for Bitcoin, With Jason Maier
Bitcoin Gas Flare Mining, With Matt Lohstroh
Why Lightning Isn’t Just for Bitcoin Believers, With Graham Krizek
‘A Fight Worth Having’: A Conversation With Jesse Powell
The Top 5 Times Bitcoin Was Supposed to Die, With Dan McArdle
Okay Proof of Reserves, But for Real This Time?
The State of Play in Fed Commentary and the Crypto Contagion
Is DCG in Danger Now, Too?
Guy Who Oversaw Enron Says FTX Is Worse
Genesis and Gemini Earn Halt Withdrawals as FTX Contagion Spreads
The State of Post-FTX and Alameda Research Market Contagion
Sam Bankman Fraud: Inside the Collapse of FTX’s Hollow Empire
OFAC Backtracks (Somewhat) on Tornado Cash Sanctions
Jonathan Wu on Why Technology Might Be a Better Solution to Privacy Than Public Policy
The Fight for DeFi in Washington, D.C., With Miller Whitehouse-Levine
What the US Midterm Elections’ Lack of a ‘Red Wave’ Means for Crypto
Tyrone Ross on Why the Institutions Are Building During This Bear Market
Why There Is No 'Bitcoin Is Dead' Talk This Cycle