What do Alameda, FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried Have in Common?

You’ve likely heard of Bitcoin and Ether as digital tokens, but there’s actually tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies you probably haven’t heard of. In fact over 12,000 of those coins are virtually d...

31 Okt 202218min

Listen to the first audio excerpt from this week's special issue of Businessweek magazine, The Crypto Story. Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine uses the full issue to explain where crypto came from, what...

30 Okt 202226min

Our colleagues on QuickTake, Tim Stenocec and Katie Greifeld, host a weekly video series called QuickTake IRL - In Real Life. Just for listeners of the Bloomberg Crypto podcast, we've got an audio ver...

29 Okt 202226min

This week in crypto, we are settling in to crypto's new norms: like bitcoin now being range-bound: trading steadily between $19k-$20k. And we are still waiting to see if the so-called ‘Uptober’ will s...

28 Okt 202219min

Let’s say you’re a crypto startup trying to raise money from venture capitalists. All things being equal, you’d have done decently well in 2020, ridiculously well in 2021, and not bad at all in the fi...

27 Okt 202216min

Ethereum’s Merge has created a new class of blockchain participants, called ‘builders.' It's a significant shift in the current decentralized ecosystem. There are a relatively small number of these bu...

26 Okt 202216min

Some of you may already know the work and writing of Bloomberg Opinion columnist Matt Levine. For everyone else — well you’re in for a treat.  Matt’s just published many thousands of words on the subj...

25 Okt 202219min

September is traditionally a bad month for crypto - a down month for the past five years. But for Bitcoin proponents, October might hold something a bit more hopeful. The month of pumpkins and Hallowe...

24 Okt 202217min