The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced yesterday it had both filed and settled charges against three “decentralized finance” operations, Opyn Inc., ZeroEx Inc., and Deridex Inc. In the agency’s own language,…
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Caitlin Long on Why Politics Should Stay Out of Banking
After 22 years on Wall Street, Caitlin Long got intrigued by bitcoin and the blockchain in 2012. From 2018 through 2020 she served as a member of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force,…
Congressman Talks Smack About Bitcoin Creator 'Saratoshi Nagamoto'
In a Financial Services Committee hearing this week, Rep. Brad Sherman (D–Calif.) had some choice words for bitcoin bros: JUST IN: ???????? US Congressman says #Bitcoin creator “Saratoshi Nagamoto” was not innovative….
Can Grandmas Be Bitcoin Cypherpunks? Q&A With Jameson Lopp
In October 2017, a SWAT team showed up at Jameson Lopp’s house in North Carolina, allegedly because of a fake complaint called in by someone angered by a tweet. So Lopp posted…
Gary Gensler's SEC Cracks Down on Coinbase and Binance
On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), headed by Gary Gensler, sued crypto exchange Coinbase for not registering as a securities broker. The day prior, the SEC filed charges against Binance…
Debate: Bitcoin Is the Future of Free Exchange
Bitcoin Is an Effective Tool for Liberty Affirmative: Alex Gladstein Joanna Andreasson There was a time when it was fair to question whether bitcoin was an effective tool for liberty. In its…
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Assets to Fund Political Donations, Says SEC
Disgraced crypto king faces criminal charges and SEC lawsuit. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and head of the popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors,…
Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty?
The public is only beginning to understand the full extent of alleged crimes committed by Sam Bankman-Fried (better known as SBF), a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who lost billions of dollars after his exchange,…
FTX Meltdown and the Future of Crypto: Live With Kraken Co-Founder Jesse Powell
When a cryptocurrency exchange holding $16 billion worth of customer deposits suddenly collapses, what does that portend for the future of the crypto industry? How did Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of…