It looked to be a slow news week (for what was the first time I could remember in crypto history) but then of course, more details leaked about Facebook’s stablecoin.[…]
Laura's Crypto Newsletters
Laura’s take on the top crypto stories of the week
SEC Comes Out Swinging
If you read Kik’s Wells submission and the SEC complaint against Kik, you’ll see how thorny the issues are. Each side has a compelling argument to make, and they each[…]
Crypto Showdown
It’s not everyday I get to break news on the podcast, so it was fun being the first to report on Kik’s new Defend Crypto fund, which hopes to challenge[…]
Bubble, Bubble, Toil, Trouble
If you haven’t had a chance yet, definitely listen to this week’s Unchained, which goes into detail on Arwen, a protocol that could enable people to trade on centralized (but[…]
The Magical, Ethereal Consensus Summit
If last year’s Blockchain Week was characterized by the Lambos and crypto billionaire cruise, 2019’s week of conferences was the Tame Edition. That didn’t mean it was boring, however. It[…]
Funds #SNAFU
Of course, in crypto, there couldn’t be a slow news week before all the conferences and attendant announcements. Binance was hacked for 7,000 BTC ($40 million) and yet what really[…]
All Kinds of Flight Risk
More details emerge this week about the Bitfinex/Tether situation, showing why it’s actually a collection of much less well-known companies and people that are at the center of this mystery.[…]
Super-Sketch, Bitfinex
Greetings from Berlin. It’s nice how crypto often shows the importance of many of the regulations that pre-dated crypto. According to the NY Attorney General, Bitfinex lost $850 million in[…]
The Cutting Room Floor: Charlie Lee
When editing this episode, I noticed a few points where I’d wished I’d asked followup questions. I sent them to Charlie via email, and he graciously responded. My questions and his[…]
Bluster, Bickering and Binance Chain
This week, some of the the biggest names in the space were bearing out the crypto winter differently — Coinbase with revenue falling short of projections, Binance launching its own[…]