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2023
SEC sues Binance, part 2: asset freeze, securities, Coley and Brooks, Gensler’s alleged COIoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2023
SEC sues Binance, part 1: Binance US asset freeze, Tai Chi plan, sock puppet CEOs, weird cash flowsoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2023
Crypto collapse: Fahrenheit buys Celsius, DCG may be broke, Hong Kong cracks down, Binance commingling, how Bitfinex was hackedoriginal ↗
26 May 2023
Crypto collapse: Tether makes up some numbers, UK MPs call crypto gambling, more regulatory clarity, news from Chapter 11original ↗
22 May 2023
Crypto collapse: Bittrex files chapter 11, Binance loses market makers, FTX gets a tax bill, bitcoin gets apesoriginal ↗
14 May 2023
Crypto collapse: One year since Terra-Luna, New York goes after crypto, Coinbase launches offshore casino, Central African Republic abandons bitcoinoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
Crypto collapse: Coinbase rattles sabres at the SEC, Voyager sale collapses, Terra-Luna, Binanceoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2023
Crypto collapse: Reggie Fowler sentencing delayed, SEC charges Bittrex, Coinbase looks to leave the US, Scaramucci and FTX, Bitfinex, Rippleoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues — a medium-boiled forensic accountant detective novel, with crypto and gangstersoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2023
Crypto collapse: Treasury comes after DeFi, SEC comes after crypto exchanges, stablecoin bill, FTX first interim reportoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2023
9 Apr 2023
Crypto collapse: No cashing out from Binance US, Catherine Coley lawyers up, Voyager-Binance deal on hold, Celsiusoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2023
The Block fires a third of staff — Larry Cermak is CEO, Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy joins boardoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2023
31 Mar 2023
Crypto collapse: New Sam Bankman-Fried charge, Binance fallout, SEC sues exchange over crypto securities, how Signature diedoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
CFTC cracks CZ’s phone, sues Binance — what’s a little terrorist financing between friendsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023
Do Kwon arrested, White House hates crypto, Coinbase Wells notice, SEC charges Justin Sun, Signature sold, FTX Bahamas party fund returnsoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023
Crypto collapse: Silicon Valley Bank falls and takes out USDC, New York calls ETH a securityoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2023
Crypto collapse: Good night Silvergate Bank, unbanking crypto exchanges, Voyager sale to Binance proceedingoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
Crypto collapse: Binance hits reserves, FTX’s Singh sings, miners’ creative accounting, bitcoin markets are thinoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
Crypto collapse: Silvergate implosion continues, Signature Bank, Tether lied to banks, Voyager, Celsiusoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
News: blockchain MEP Eva Kaili corruption arrest, Nigerian CBDC rewrite, BBC blockchain misadventuresoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2023
Crypto collapse: New Sam Bankman-Fried charges, New York targets CoinEx, Coinbase losses, Voyager, Celsiusoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2023
Crypto collapse: SEC tightening crypto custody rules, why you can’t cash out your BUSD, Binance and Catherine Coley, SEC charges Terra-Lunaoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023
Crypto collapse: Unbanking crypto, Genesis offers DCG shares to creditors, Binance suspends US dollar transactions, SEC goes after stakingoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2023
Crypto collapse: Crypto.com’s shadow bank Transactive, US banks and crypto, Binance not so good with actual moneyoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023
Crypto collapse: FTX family subpoenas, SBF witness tampering, Celsius bids revealed, more crypto banking woesoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: US banks leave crypto, how Genesis kept Gemini hanging on, FTX, Binance, Nexooriginal ↗
25 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: Genesis bankrupt, CoinDesk for sale, Bankman-Fried attacks FTX lawyers, Bitzlato bustedoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up, Nexo charged, GBTC still wants to be an ETF, crypto exchanges struggle, FTX, Voyageroriginal ↗
15 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: DCG’s check kiting comes home to roost, Nexo raided, Voyager sale to Binance progresses, unbanking the bankedoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: DCG’s problem is Grayscale, FTX Bahamas agreement, DeFi trading arrest, Silvergate Bank, Huobi, Binanceoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2023
Crypto collapse: Gemini vs DCG, New York charges Mashinsky in Celsius, Voyager sale troubles, Silvergate troubles, Wintermuteoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023
2022
Return to Nothingness: Big Crypto’s struggles with basic accounting and economics — by Martin Walkeroriginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
Crypto collapse: Binance is not so fine, FTX Delaware vs FTX Bahamas, Celsius, Voyager, Gemini, Tetheroriginal ↗
18 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022
Celsius hearings, December 5: Whose stablecoins are these? KERP bonuses, new deadline for restructuring planoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2022
Crypto collapse: BlockFi even deader, crypto miners going broke, Sam will not shut up, Binance and Tether are fineoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2022
15 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022
News: US Treasury on the threat of crypto; failed corporate NFTs; SEC vs. Yuga Labs; Urbit tries againoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2022
Crypto collapse: 40 states chasing Celsius for possible securities fraud; Texas chasing Voyager and FTX for possible securities fraudoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022
Crypto collapse: States bust Nexo, Terra’s Do Kwon on the run, Celsius CEO resigns, FTX buying Voyager and eyeing Celsius, ETH miners screwedoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2022
22 Sept 2022
Crypto collapse: Celsius, Voyager, SkyBridge — the liabilities are real, the assets are fakeoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2022
News: Failed football sponsorships, Hetzner v. Ethereum, Saylor’s DC tax, Crypto.com forgets AUD$10moriginal ↗
2 Sept 2022
Crypto collapse: Celsius sues KeyFi, BlockFi’s FTX deal, Scaramucci’s SkyBridge, Voyager suit, 3AC going to jail?original ↗
28 Aug 2022
Regulatory clarity: doomed US crypto bills, Nigeria’s CBDC lacks repeat users, central banks don’t like crypto eitheroriginal ↗
27 Aug 2022
Crypto collapse: 3AC yacht ‘Much Wow’ back on the market, Celsius maybe-Ponzi, Voyager pays off the boys, Hodlnautoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2022
Proof-of-Stake is better than Proof-of-Work — but Ethereum’s Merge won’t fix any other problem with cryptocurrencyoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2022
News: Starbucks NFTs, Reddit karma points on the blockchain, Saylor fired, Telegram ICO slight returnoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2022
Crypto collapse: Coinbase’s billion-dollar bloodbath, Hodlnaut goes down, Celsius, Voyager, 3ACoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022
27 Jul 2022
News: what’s the Tory crypto story, US stablecoin bill, Facebook’s Libra even deader, the ignominious death of SingularDTV and Breakeroriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022