Caroline Ellison

Feb
21

Exchange Invest 2591: Zelensky Sanctions MOEX

Now Gazza G spent the weekend stuck on Third Base with his crypto crackdown but is the home run coming this week or next?
10 min read
Jan
20

Exchange Invest 2564: FTX Lazarus?

Can FTX really rise from the dead? Meanwhile Binance is named as a major counterparty to the decapitated by DOJ exchange Bitzlato and lots of legacy exchange news as ICE seeks to revolutionize energy trade paperwork.
16 min read
Jan
04

Exchange Invest 2550: SBF Pleads Not Guilty

We dunno who is backing his bail, nor to what extent (the usual 10% seems implausible) but SBF is out until October 2nd when his trial date has been set…
12 min read
Dec
22

Exchange Invest 2539: SBF’s Home!

SBF has migrated in the opposite direction to the lovely summer birds and ended Wednesday under SDNY jurisdiction and probably a long stay in a US fleapit remand prison - worse than the relatively cushy reality of his Bahamas detention it will likely transpire.
14 min read
Dec
16

Exchange Invest 2534: SEC Attacks PFOF

As the tabloids make mischief suggesting SBF’s Mom has been ringing the jail to get strict vegan food sent to Inmate 14372, I had some splendid correspondence from commodity expert Ann Berg who noted the origins of Effective Altruism in Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarian movement.
9 min read
Nov
21

Exchange Invest 2512: Bahamas Flex On FTX

Just as FTX weren’t doing their paperwork and introduced an emoji GUI to expenses payment while it seems carelessly forgetting to actually introduce stuff like accounting, or governance…
18 min read
Nov
19

170 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast November 19th, 2022

The stock exchange was closed during the dark days of communism in 1948 and only reopened after the Berlin Wall fell and indeed, when president Ceaușescu had been executed.
10 min read
Nov
14

Exchange Invest 2506: Lawyers Circling FTX

till can't help but feel he didn't mean it to happen that way but $26 billion to zero in a matter of months, $16 bln to zero in a week outpaced the worst options time decay I can recall too.
9 min read
Nov
11

Exchange Invest 2504: Fashionistas Dump FTX

NB: Caroline Ellison (former Alameda co-CEO) is viral on Twitter “being comfortable with risk very important. We don’t use any stop losses. I think those aren’t a good risk management tool.”
16 min read