All kinds of regulators were weighing in on Libra, with the House Financial Services Committee writing a letter that seemed to grasp the import of the proposed cryptocurrency. It called[…]
Laura's Crypto Newsletters
Laura’s take on the top crypto stories of the week
Libra in the Balance
Facebook’s Libra continued to dominate coverage this week. (Well, aside from the Bitcoin price, which got CNBC back into the crypto news game.) Reporters pored over how profitable being a[…]
Libra’s Year Ahead
Facebook’s big Libra announcement certainly gave everyone in crypto and everyone who deals with money — okay, just everyone — a lot to discuss. The tech giant released more than[…]
Unchained Is Doing a Survey!
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.[…]
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.[…]