What Do Stimulus Checks Have to do With Crypto Winter?

Coinbase released quarterly earnings this week, providing an etch-a-sketch road map of what’s ahead for digital asset investors. Regardless, the darkening outlook for Coinbase’s business of stablecoin...

24 Helmi 202315min

Want to hear a big number? How about $3.8 billion. That’s the amount of crypto that hackers managed to steal last year. That’s a new record. The company behind that report, Chainalysis, also found tha...

23 Helmi 202314min

Over the course of the crypto winter we’ve seen companies falling like dominos. Several have filed for bankruptcy, with consequences that continue to reverberate across markets. In July 2022, Celsius ...

22 Helmi 202316min

Bitcoin “evangelist” Roger Ver has said in at least one interview ... when he was a little boy, he wanted to be a garbage truck driver. That way, he  could drive heavy machinery around his neighborhoo...

21 Helmi 202314min

It's a holiday in the US, an opportunity to look back on one of our popular episodes. It was recorded with Joe Weisenthal from the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast shortly after FTX declared bankruptcy and ...

20 Helmi 202317min

After years of inaction, regulators appear to be coming for crypto. State regulators in New York this week took aim at stablecoin issuer Paxos and its relationship with crypto exchange Binance.  The S...

17 Helmi 202318min

Over the past several months, regulators have watched crypto company after crypto company file for bankruptcy. Some crypto founders have become fugitives from the law, and others have been arrested fo...

16 Helmi 202317min

The best known figure of the FTX bankruptcy is - of course - its notorious former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. But there were dozens of other top executives at the firm. Some of them with titles ranging fro...

15 Helmi 202319min