Crypto recaps

Crypto recaps

Issue 23 – Here for crime

SBF gets slapped with a bribery charge, Binance gets sued by the CFTC, and Arbitrum bungles decentralization.

Crypto recaps

Issue 22 – Conferences and collapses

In stark contrast to the prior year's NFT mania, SXSW 2023 showcased a crypto industry made weary by a protracted downturn.

Crypto recaps

Issue 21 – Other-than-temporary impairments could make banks less than well-capitalized

Silvergate spirals, another exec flips on SBF, and no one wants NFTs anymore.

Crypto recaps

Issue 20 – These things happen

The SEC enters a feeding frenzy and someone spends a quarter million dollars on a fart.

Crypto recaps

Issue 19 – Down with the crypto banks

Also featuring knockoff NFTs and claims of a wallet hacked via photograph.

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Issue 18 – Chief Ponzi Officer

If you're in the ponzi business, maybe don't quip to your colleagues in writing that you should be retitled "Ponzi Consultant". Also, a16z-backed rugpulls, Tesla buys high and sells low.

Crypto recaps

Issue 17 – Posting through it

Doubly bad weeks for both Genesis and Nexo, and the founders of Three Arrows Capital progress in their quest to become the most hated people in crypto.

Crypto recaps

Issue 16 – Bahamian brouhaha

Also featuring stablecoin salaries, Bitcoin burglaries, and rug-pull rationalizations.

Crypto recaps

Issue 15 – The reverse Midas touch

Tax loss harvesting worthless NFTs as a service (TLHWNFTaaS), more pilfered Pokémon, and a hard lesson that mere belief that your actions are legal doesn't mean that they are.

Crypto recaps

Issue 14 – FTX friends flip on fellow fraudster

SBF is in the US, where he has been released on bail. Meanwhile, two top executives are cooperating with the investigation and have pled guilty to their charges.

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Issue 13 – Don't threaten me with a good time

Sam Bankman-Fried tells me he doesn't think he'll be arrested several hours before he is arrested. Also, Decentraland introduces landlords.

Crypto recaps

Issue 12 – Destablecoins destabilize

Bankruptcies pile up, Orthogonal Trading goes pear-shaped, and crypto exchanges perform layoffs... again.

Crypto recaps

Issue 11 – A different sort of animal

Many, many companies look for a bailout in the wake of the FTX collapse while a group of Elon Musk stans take sycophancy to new heights.

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Issue 10 – Speedrunning the evolution of modern finance

The FTX dumpster fire rages on, Crypto.com had a quiet $400 million+ oopsie a month ago, and Binance comes up with a novel idea to add stability to a financial system.

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Issue 9 – How the mighty are falling

FTX goes from rescuer to rescuee, stolen Bitcoin is seized ten years after the theft, and a "whitehat" hack may not be so whitehat

Crypto recaps

Issue 8 – French fry fiascos

A fast food franchise DAO apparently exists, and Hodlnaut tries to hodl on.