There’s A Bitcoin Bar In NYC. Why?

The crypto industry descended into chaos last week after a series of fast moving events. The trouble purportedly started after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted that the crypto exchange would sell of...

15 Nov 202219min

It’s a day ending in Y, which means we’re going to talk about crypto hacks. Yes, these are all too common - in October alone, hacks, attacks and clever exploits (more about those in a second) cost the...

14 Nov 202218min

Listen to the third 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...

13 Nov 202238min

Our colleagues on QuickTake, Tim Stenovec 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...

12 Nov 202226min

The equivalent of an earthquake jolted the crypto world this week:  Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced and then quickly reversed a proposal to buy out rival exchange FTX, ...

11 Nov 202213min

One of the core fundamentals that personifies the Bloomberg newsroom is its commitment to data. As part of that commitment, the Markets Live team does a weekly investor survey, asking questions about ...

10 Nov 202217min

Evangelists of web3 - a term popularized by venture capitalist Chris Dixon - will often say that a big goal of the whole thing is giving more power to creators, and especially monetary power. Web3, th...

9 Nov 202219min

One of the bigger fights in crypto right now is over the definition of a security - what counts as a security, and who gets to decide - and therefore regulate - that. This isn’t just about semantics: ...

8 Nov 202219min