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‘It’s Time for Crypto to Put on Big Boy Pants’: 5 Ways TradFi Investors Are Rethinking Crypto in the Wake of FTX
7.2.2023
Pension funds, endowments, foundations and large family offices are key to crypto’s future. How do they look at the industry now? Angelo Calvello checks in with 15 asset-owners
‘Crypto Mom’ Hester Peirce: SEC ‘Disappoints’ When It Comes to Crypto
7.2.2023
The securities watchdog has “never handled innovation” well, the SEC Commissioner tells Robert Stevens
How Bitcoin NFTs Might Accidentally Fix Bitcoin's Security Budget
6.2.2023
Ordinal NFTs have rejuvenated Bitcoin’s transaction fee market. Will it prove useful?
The Rise of Crypto's Brand of Regenerative Finance
6.2.2023
Solar Punk Manuel Alzuru says "a social awakening is happening" and the future of crypto will be tied closely to ReFi. "This is the very beginning," he says
SBF bail guarantor to go public, UK crypto framework and Celsius news: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 29 – Feb. 4
4.2.2023
Top Stories This Week SBF’s $250M bail guarantors should be made public, rules judge The identities of two individuals who helped former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried with his $250 million bail bond could be revealed next month following a recent ruling by United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan....
Why Crypto Is Not an 'Industry'
3.2.2023
What term should we use to describe the collective of individuals and projects working to further the use cases of blockchain technology? Are we an industry, a sector or something else? Noelle Acheson explains why this matters more than we might realize
Fed Policy Win Could Harm Bitcoin’s Wall Street Narrative
3.2.2023
The January rebound in equities and knockout employment report may have undermined a few buy-bitcoin narratives, but the real value proposition behind bitcoin lies far beyond Wall Street in emerging markets, where bitcoin is in strong demand
Huawei NFTs, Toyota’s hackathon, North Korea vs. Blockchain: Asia Express
2.2.2023
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Huawei moves to trademark its NFTs According to a Jan. 28 report by Sina News, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has recently filed for eight trademarks related to its Huawei “YunYunBao” nonfungible tokens...
Why Ex-SEC Official John Reed Stark Is Wrong About Crypto
2.2.2023
Public blockchains still have promise to help solve the world’s most intractable problems, even if they haven’t yet
How Crypto Advocacy Must Change Post-FTX Collapse
2.2.2023
Is the Metaverse really turning out like ‘Snow Crash’?
2.2.2023
Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash predicted the Metaverse in 1992. This cult book has the amusingly-named Hiro Protagonist running around in an artificial cyber world, trying to stop a virus that wipes minds, aided by his hacker friend Y.T. Reality is a place to escape from,...
Dead Space Remake Exploit Earns You Infinite Money, Ammo
1.2.2023
Motive Studio’s Dead Space remake is a bloody slow-crawl to victory, one that might be made easier with an exploit spotted by a Reddit user earlier this week. Read more
Why Venture Capitalists Won’t Be Held Accountable for Investing in FTX
1.2.2023
As impossible as it is to believe that venture capital funds did proper due diligence on mismanaged and allegedly fraudulent FTX, the inherent risk of early-stage investing makes regulatory change unlikely in the fallout
Tiffany Fong flames Celsius, FTX and NY Post: Hall of Flame
1.2.2023
Tiffany Fong stumbled into content creation and independent journalism after getting burned on the Celsius bankruptcy, moving forward she has no idea where this will lead
What's Holding DAOs Back?
31.1.2023
The founder of CityDAO weighs solutions to decentralized autonomous organizations’ coordination and regulatory problems
The NFT Community Could Forgive BAYC Founders’ Esoteric Interests
31.1.2023
Initial Coin Offerings Deserve a Rethink
31.1.2023
ICOs do not deserve their bad reputation – and can be a viable way for retail investors to take part in the growth of early stage startups and expand capital access for U.S. firms, if regulation is reconsidered
20 wild attempts to create crypto micronations or communities
31.1.2023
From repurposed cruise ships like MS Satosh, to the blockchain governed Liberland and Satoshi Island, crypto fans are trying to create utopian new communities built around new rules
Code vs. Values: The Crypto Twist on ‘Trust’
30.1.2023
The annual Edelman Trust Barometer shows that society has worsening trust issues. Crypto promises a different type of trust alternative and nudges us toward a new understanding of the word
FTX creditors list, BlockFi $1.2B exposure and new Celsius token: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 22-28
28.1.2023
FTX will be the subject of a U.S. Senate hearing, authorities take HashFlare founders into custody and New York finalizes its PoW ban