What Do Stimulus Checks Have to do With Crypto Winter?
What do pandemic stimulus funds have to do with the recent collapse of crypto prices and entities like FTX? According to Bloomberg Opinion writer Robert Burgess, the answer is basically everything.As ...
12 Des 202214min
Bonus: The Crypto Story by Matt Levine - Part 7
Listen to the final audio excerpt from a special issue of Businessweek magazine, The Crypto Story. Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine uses the full issue to explain where crypto came from, what it means ...
11 Des 202222min
This Week In Crypto
Listen to Bloomberg Crypto on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The Sam Bankman-Fried apology tour continued this week, despite a number of high-profile lawyers — including one who repr...
9 Des 202218min
Current Groupthink of the Crypto Faithful
Financial markets can be subject to a fair amount of groupthink. The herd effect. Mob mentality, even. There’s actually some really interesting research into this: check out for example the paper, “Bu...
8 Des 202219min
The Vanishing of SBF’s ‘Effective Altruism”
Listen to Bloomberg Crypto on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sam Bankman-Fried used to say he was a man on a mission. That mission: giving away more than a billion dollars in the ser...
7 Des 202217min
What Are Crypto Diehards Rebuilding After FTX’s Fall?
Listen to Bloomberg Crypto on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. “It’s time to rebuild…” is a catchy phrase often said by crypto industry folks after massive implosions, like the one we ...
6 Des 202219min
What Does Political Giving Look Like Post-FTX?
The interplay of money and politics in the US is real, and well established. And that includes when that money is either in the form of crypto, or comes from people who made their fortunes in digital ...
5 Des 202217min
Bonus: The Crypto Story by Matt Levine - Part 6
Listen to the sixth audio excerpt from a special issue of Businessweek magazine, The Crypto Story. Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine uses the full issue to explain where crypto came from, what it means ...
4 Des 202254min
