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Bloomberg Crypto
In this daily podcast, Bloomberg’s reporting team teases out what’s actually important in the crypto conversation. Led by crypto editor stacy-marie ishmael, the show draws on reporters and editors around the world and credible voices from across the industry. Episodes cover everything from regulatio...
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Introducing - Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Coming soon: When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes....
Princeton University’s Blockchain Center, One Year On
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Last year, just before the crypto winter had hit in earnest, Prin...
Crypto Winter Meets Banking Crisis: A Tale of Three Banks
It’s been another wild week of financial mayhem connected to crypto. But this time the crisis focused on banks.
It started earlier this month [...
NFT Fans Say 2023 Is Looking Up
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Some might argue that the popularity of NFTs faded as quickly as...
Job Cuts Reflect Crypto Winter’s Deep Freeze
The last 12 months or so have been a particularly grueling season for crypto. And as we head into the spring months of 2023, we’re getting a better se...
What’s Happening With Crypto in Argentina?
Argentina is one of the countries with the highest rates of inflation in the world - currently hovering at close to 100%.
The nation is also o...
This Week in Crypto: Court is in Session
Legal battles, circling regulators and a troubled bank. It's all happening in crypto this week.
Court is in session as Grayscale challenges the...
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on US Crypto Regulation
Bloomberg’s stacy-marie ishmael interviewed Jeremy Allaire, Chief Executive Officer of Circle Internet Financial Ltd. to discuss stablecoins and his v...
The IRS Wants to Tax Your Frozen Crypto
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Voyager. Celsius. Genesis. And of course, FTX. All major crypto c...
What Are the UK and EU Doing About Crypto Regulation?
Over the past few weeks, we've seen US regulators, both federal and state in some cases - take aim at crypto companies with accusations of fraud and...
Why The FTX Collapse Shook The Bahamas
It’s been three months since one of the most influential crypto exchanges collapsed into bankruptcy. FTX’s demise brought with it a wave of financial...
This Week in Crypto: Ukraine War, Marathon Digital, FTX
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has had a devastating impact on Ukraine's economy, people and landma...
AI Hype Meets Crypto Winter
Most crypto enthusiasts pride themselves on being tech visionaries. After all, they were among the first to back innovative blockchain technologies an...
What’s A ‘Britcoin’?
The Bank of England and the UK Treasury are moving forward with a plan to launch a digital currency. It’s being called the CBDC, or Central Bank Digit...
A Look Behind The Celsius Curtain
The story of crypto lender Celsius Network’s bankruptcy officially began last summer, when it filed for Chapter 11 and cited a severe liquidity crisis...
What are Bitcoin NFTs?
In a major twist in the digital-assets world, Bitcoin has added nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to its blockchain. The new protocol that makes them is calle...
The Latest on Bitcoin, FTX and Coinbase
Coinbase released quarterly earnings this week, providing an etch-a-sketch road map of what’s ahead for digital asset investors.
Regardless, the...
2022 Was a Good Year for Crypto Hackers
Want to hear a big number? How about $3.8 billion. That’s the amount of crypto that hackers managed to steal last year. That’s a new record. The compa...
How Are Bankruptcy Courts Shaping Crypto Law?
Over the course of the crypto winter we’ve seen companies falling like dominos. Several have filed for bankruptcy, with consequences that continue to...
What Makes ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver Tick?
Bitcoin “evangelist” Roger Ver has said in at least one interview ... when he was a little boy, he wanted to be a garbage truck driver. That way, he ...
President's Day Redux - Joe Weisenthal on Sam Bankman-Fried
It's a holiday in the US, an opportunity to look back on one of our popular episodes. It was recorded with Joe Weisenthal from the Bloomberg Odd Lots...
This Week In Crypto: Pushback from US Regulators
After years of inaction, regulators appear to be coming for crypto. State regulators in New York this week took aim at stablecoin issuer Paxos and its...
Binance Enters The Regulatory Fray
Over the past several months, regulators have watched crypto company after crypto company file for bankruptcy. Some crypto founders have become fugiti...
The Short List of FTX’s Power Players
The best known figure of the FTX bankruptcy is - of course - its notorious former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. But there were dozens of other top executives...
Wall Street Is Looking Bullish On Crypto
With everything that has gone on in crypto over the past year, Wall Street would be excused for wanting to take a rain check on digital assets. But so...
Who Are The Winklevoss Twins Behind Gemini?
If you’ve heard the name Winklevoss, it’s likely that you’ve watched the movie The Social Network. The movie featured a memorable depiction of the Har...
Crypto Billionaires Reconcile, 'Britcoin' In Works
Crypto is an asset class that runs 24/7. It’s hard to keep up. So we’re back with a show that reviews the biggest stories of the week. Here’s one: the...
Crypto Hackers Face The Courts
One of the more interesting phrases used by folks in crypto is this one: “code is law.” Think of it this way. Under the idea that “code is law”, what...
Bitcoin Miners Are Back Amid Crypto Rally
Crypto markets, and Bitcoin especially, had a strong start to the year. That’s had a couple of interesting consequences for some of the most important...
What do Venture Capitalists Think About the Crypto Market?
Like many buzzy, fast-growth, high-risk industries, companies operating in and around crypto and the blockchain have relied heavily on venture capital...
Time to Upgrade the Ethereum Blockchain (Again)
Nearly five months ago, the Ethereum blockchain successfully completed what was — at the time — a very complicated and years-in-the-making update. Cal...
What's The Deal With Bitcoin Going Up?
Surprising to some, it turned out to be a decent month for crypto. Bitcoin rose almost 40% and some smaller coins did much better.
Speaking of r...
What’s Next For Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz?
The digital-asset industry is reeling from challenges many blame on a handful of so-called crypto bad actors and wayward CEOs. Of course we’re talking...
Is China Poised to Relax Its Crypto Ban?
One of the biggest shocks to the crypto market in the past couple of years came in 2021 - when China issued its most significant crackdown yet on all...
The US Has a Renewed Urgency to Regulate Crypto Post-FTX
The bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and the arrest of its former CEO San Bankman-Fried has had a lasting effect on the digital asset sector, for sur...
Should You Try Fidelity's New Crypto Platform?
Long time Fidelity customers have been getting some interesting offers in their inbox from the financial services company over the past several months...
This Week in Crypto: Binance Mishandles Collateral, More Crypto Layoffs
As we reported this week, Binance acknowledged that it had been mistakenly mixing the collateral it holds for some of its tokens…. in the same digital...
What Genesis's Bankruptcy Means for the Industry
Crypto lender Genesis has filed for bankruptcy. For many observers in crypto, this wasn't entirely unexpected, not least because the company itself ha...
What Will Coinbase’s Earnings Call Reveal?
The end of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire created a contagion effect especially felt by crypto exchanges, like publicly-traded Coinbase. In early January,...
There’s A Bitcoin Bar In NYC. Why?
It’s 2023 and the crypto community is hoping to pull out of its funk this year and put the blowups, bankruptcies and price slumps of the last year in...