Crypto recaps
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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Crypto recaps
Issue 16 – Bahamian brouhaha
Also featuring stablecoin salaries, Bitcoin burglaries, and rug-pull rationalizations.
Newsletter
In 2022, web3 went just great
Come, reminisce with me.
Crypto recaps
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.
Crypto recaps
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.
Newsletter
FTX hearing: Senate edition
A recap of the Senate hearing on "Crypto Crash: Why the FTX Bubble Burst and the Harm to Consumers", which featured witnesses both advocating for and critical of crypto.
Newsletter
The charges against Sam Bankman-Fried and the first FTX Congressional hearing
An overview of the charges filed against SBF from three agencies today, and a recap of the Congressional hearing that featured four hours of testimony from FTX's new CEO.
Crypto recaps
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.
Crypto recaps
Issue 12 – Destablecoins destabilize
Bankruptcies pile up, Orthogonal Trading goes pear-shaped, and crypto exchanges perform layoffs... again.
Newsletter
Everything Sam Bankman-Fried is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
And it is critical that we all keep that at the forefronts of our minds.
Crypto recaps
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.
Crypto recaps
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.
Newsletter
The FTX collapse: the latest revelations (part three)
Bankruptcy filings, private messages, and leaked balance sheets reveal some of the chaos at FTX. Here's what we know now.
Newsletter
The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What does it mean? (part two)
Hold on to your butts.
Newsletter
The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (part one)
Shorter title: SBF, FTX, WTF?
Crypto recaps
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