crypto

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
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
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
Apr
26

Another One Bites The Dust

“Another One Bites the Dust” from the legacy exchange world as a great victory for the crypto kiddies but I fear it underlines the view of ICE’s Chris Edmonds last year...
2 min read
Apr
25

Sorry About The “4:FUD!”

CZ finds himself writing letters of apology to the court. He could motivate a thousand or more braying donkeys to support his view with a de minimis Twitter cri de coeur of “it’s 4:FUD!
2 min read