Crypto recaps

Crypto recaps

Issue 30 – Sturdy Finance isn't, Atlantis Loans sinks

A week of ironically-named failures added to the continuing chaos from the SEC's crypto crackdown.

Crypto recaps

Issue 29 – SEC showdown

The SEC is gearing up for battle with two crypto giants.

Crypto recaps

Issue 28 – Force majeure

A $100+ million grift week also featured Grumpy Cat cease-and-desist NFTs, eyeball black markets, and a rumored team arrest.

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Issue 27 – Buzzword bingo

We may never get to play a $45 million AI-powered NFT mecha-cockfighting game. Thanks a lot, Gary Gensler.

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Issue 26 – Fully prepared to litigate

French celebrities rug pull, Binance backs out, and Hamas gives up on Bitcoin.

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Issue 25 – Taking time to be with my remaining apes

Legislators in the US and EU are paying more attention to crypto, and two projects get exploited for the second and third times.

Crypto recaps

Issue 24 – We sometimes find $50m of assets lying around that we lost track of; such is life.

Chart crimes, math crimes, and crime crimes.

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Issue 23 – Here for crime

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

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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.

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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.

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Issue 20 – These things happen

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

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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.

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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.

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Issue 16 – Bahamian brouhaha

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

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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.