May
16
Crime & Punishment
Ryan Salame approaches his date with judicial destiny - where will his stretch fall on the CZ-SBF scale?
1 min read
Bitcarnage
Exchange Invest is the daily bulletin of the bourse business and this newsletter “Bitcarnage” is our crypto spin out - a brief bulletin of what’s happening in the world of bitcoin and related market infrastructure analysed through the lens of a tech savvy, highly experienced team of exchange experts.
May
15
Degraded Performance
Not a good day for Coinbase as it suffers systems maladies…
3 min read
May
14
Malodorous Hacking
From Pyongyang with purpose but no love comes a new threat, North Korean hackers deploy ‘Durian’ malware, targeting crypto firms.
1 min read
May
13
Rice Trading Off Blockchain
SBF finds himself still in pure play guilt denial (well technically he was raised to deny guilt exists so clearly he inherited a philosophical quandary from his parents) and is busy trading rice in jail.
3 min read
May
10
“Just Say No!”
In a bygone era it was the White House phrase to curb drug usage. In the age of fentanyl afflicted addicts on almost every street corner, it now appears to be the Biden admin’s catchphrase against crypto: “Just say no!”
2 min read
May
10
244 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast May 11th, 2024
This week in the parish of bourses and market structure:
All Weather Excellence Says Leading Exchanges Grow More Than 20% In Q1,
There’s A Dash of Spring MOU Madness In The Air,
While Europe’s Leading Financial Industry Bodies Warn The Flywheel Needs To Turn
11 min read
May
09
Crypto Caveat Emptor
Perhaps more than any other part of the tech industry, crypto relies on storytelling. This is because the underlying technology, as it exists today, doesn’t have much to offer the average person in their day-to-day life.
3 min read
May
08
Barbies, Roasts & Bad DD
“Oh no it doesn’t!” The pantomime of childish crypto kiddies continues to argue they ought to be allowed to do what they want and old fuddy stuff like the law and regulation be damned.
4 min read
May
07
Carpet Bombing?
Given the crypto industry continues to spend considerable amounts of money itself seeking to carpet bomb the US regulatory bloc, one might perceive a certain kettle / pot black hypocrisy?
2 min read
May
06
COIN Soars
There is a sense of shock about the CZ sentence after all the talk of at least 18 months from various quarters...
3 min read
May
03
Poetic Justice?
A frequent complaint in Bitcarnage has been the lack of self awareness of those involved in the crypto V1.0 economy.
2 min read
May
02
4 - Month: FUD!
In the end, CZ is a very very lucky man to get away with 4 months incarceration where his former foe SBF has decades in jail ahead of him.
2 min read
May
01
The Mega Spread
There’s lots of talk about how crypto helps create liquidity. Not that this is apparent amongst the legal shenanigans as Do Kwon / Terraform seek to low ball the US Gov fine with probably the most egregiously wide spread we’ve ever seen!
2 min read
Apr
30
The Big Nyet?
The big Nyet from Moscow may be looming. Russia Prepares For Total Crypto Ban As Geopolitical Tensions Rise (Crypto Briefing) / Russian 'Crypto Ban' Could Come into Force by September (Cryotonews).
1 min read
Apr
29
Ongoing Distributed Lawfare
The one consistent ‘given’ in the world of crypto appears to be not merely that the lawyers always win but that lawfare is the largest element of crypto discussion much of the time.
4 min read
