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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.
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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.
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Issue 12 – Destablecoins destabilize
Bankruptcies pile up, Orthogonal Trading goes pear-shaped, and crypto exchanges perform layoffs... again.
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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
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Issue 8 – French fry fiascos
A fast food franchise DAO apparently exists, and Hodlnaut tries to hodl on.
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Issue 7 – Stoppable domains
In the courts The judge overseeing the Voyager bankruptcy has allowed Voyager to move forward with the first steps of a deal in which FTX will buy Voyager's assets for $1.422 billion. This is despite an objection from Texas regulators, who disclosed in a filing that they