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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
27.10.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried began his testimony like the brilliant former golden boy from crypto’s better days. He ended the longest, strangest, most torturous day yet of his criminal trial more imperiled than ever before
Crypto for Advisors: ETH Futures ETFs and What’s Next
26.10.2023
Today in Crypto for Advisors Roxanna Islam from VettaFi discusses the current crypto ETF market with a focus on Eth futures performance
What's Left for Sam to Say?
26.10.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried has said a lot in the months after FTX collapsed about what happened. What's left for him to discuss?
SENTRY: analyzing a winning Next Fest demo!
25.10.2023
Also: some advice on 'catching' players' attention & lots of discovery news
Court-ordered NFTs and the importance of Web3 randomness: Nifty Newsletter
25.10.2023
A Singapore court permitted the use of NFTs to attach legal court orders tokenized as an NFT to issue a freeze order
All of a Sudden, It’s All About Bitcoin
25.10.2023
There’s a lot of activity happening in Bitcoin tech development – with innovations that might help the original and oldest blockchain to catch up with the boom of projects building in the Ethereum ecosystem
Sam Bankman-Fried's Defense May Depend on Character and Fact Witnesses
25.10.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried's defense presentation won't kick off until later this week, but it's already clear his defense may hinge on one key witness: himself. That's according to Kevin O’Brien, a partner at Ford O'Brien LLP and a former assistant U.S. attorney who specializes in white collar criminal...
The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: One Expert Witness
24.10.2023
The defense team has revealed its sole proposed expert witness, who’ll try to point out flaws in the DOJ’s presentations
How are new F2P games doing on Steam in 2023?
23.10.2023
Looking at the last year's results to work out what's hitting, and what isn't
Join the Economic Freedom Nexus — No BS Crypto News in the Context of Permissionless Exchange
23.10.2023
We all know central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the furthest thing there is from actual cryptocurrency. That “financial inclusion” usually just means more laws preventing poor people from free exchange and survival in broken, state-run fiat madhouses. The Economic Freedom...
The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: It’s the Courthouse Life for Us
23.10.2023
To get a courtroom seat, you gotta show up early: at least 7:30 a.m. The overflow room is more relaxed, but there’s no Sam, just his televised image
Plus: Cities: Skylines II 'builds' its playerbase starting next week!
20.10.2023
Also: all your other game-specific situational awareness for the week & week ahead
The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Our Favorite Quotes, So Far
20.10.2023
It's fall break! Thursday ended early after just two witnesses – former FTX General Counsel Can Sun and Third Point's Robert Boroujerdi – testified briefly. We won't be back in the courthouse at 500 Pearl Street until next Thursday, Oct. 26, when we'll resume our normal analyses. Instead, today...
Crypto for Advisors: What Will Trigger Crypto Mass Adoption?
19.10.2023
Andy Baehr, head of CoinDesk Indices discusses scenarios that could be the drivers of mass adoption in crypto
Judge Kaplan's Ire Hits All Lawyers in the Sam Bankman-Fried Case
19.10.2023
We’ve entered the soul-sucking phase of Sam Bankman-Fried’s month-long criminal trial. The part where an antsy Judge Lewis Kaplan paces and glares – and then lashes out at prosecutors (and also defense lawyers) for wasting everyone’s time
Steam Deck: everything you were afraid to ask!
18.10.2023
Also: plenty of game discovery news, of course
MetaMask briefly pulled from App Store, British MPs argue for caution with NFT copyright infringement: Nifty Newsletter, Oct. 11–Oct. 17
18.10.2023
Decentraland Foundation executive director Yemel Jardis believes the NFT market slump is not a sign of regression but maturity
Cracks Appear as Ethereum Staking Demand Wanes
18.10.2023
Earlier this year, Ethereum staking was popular, particularly with Lido Finance's rise to prominence in the DeFi space, but it is now facing challenges, suspicions, and resentment
(One Part of) SBF's Defense Strategy Starts Paying Off
18.10.2023
All three of Sam Bankman-Fried’s “inner circle” members have now testified against the FTX founder, and all three have presented similarly on the witness stand: clearly rehearsed, adamant that the FTX founder was in charge and careful not to stray too far from their well-practiced narratives. They...
SBF Trial: FTX Exec Felt ‘Suicidal’ in Crypto Exchange’s Final Days
17.10.2023
Nishad Singh told a jury on Monday that his September meeting with Bankman-Fired was the first time he realized that Alameda, FTX’s sister trading firm, had spent billions of dollars of FTX user deposits, and had left a gaping hole in both companies’ balance sheets