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Are Memecoins Silly Fun or an Existential Grift?
On Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads The Memecoin Grift and How It Threatens Ethereum Culture by Dr. Paul J. Dylan-Ennis
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2 years, 8 months ago
The Prometheum WTF: Is This an SEC Grift Just to Mess Up Crypto Legislation?
This is truly one of the weirdest stories in crypto this year. Today NLW dives deep on Prometheum, a company that only showed up on most people's rad…
2 years, 8 months ago
Is BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Application A Political Message?
World's largest asset manager BlackRock has filed for a Bitcoin spot ETF. They've been approved for 575 out of their last 576 ETF applications. Given…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Fed Pauses For The First Time In 15 Months (But Don't Call It A "Pause"!)
For the first time since this hiking cycle began, the Fed has chosen not to raise interest rates. NLW explores how they're trying to control the narr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Hinman Emails Show SEC Just Making It Up As It Goes Along
Yesterday three consequential legal events happened. Former SEC officer Bill Hinman's emails were released; the SEC was forced to respond to Coinbase…
2 years, 8 months ago
A Massive Day For Crypto in the Courts
Today in Federal Courts: the Hinman docs get unsealed in Ripple vs. SEC; SEC has to respond to Coinbase; and Binance US in court around SEC request t…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Altcoin Apocalypse: Understanding Crypto's Weekend Crash
Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, the crypto markets started puking, with a handful of altcoins crashing by more than 20% in a single 15 minu…
2 years, 8 months ago
The SEC's Crypto Legal Battles Aren't Easy
On this Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads:
The New Crypto Bill Gary Gensler Doesn’t Want You to Know About - David Z Morris
The SEC Has Started an All-I…
2 years, 8 months ago
TradFi Wants To Run Crypto
Operation Chokepoint 2.0 hasn't stopped savvy tradfi investors from smelling an opportunity. This week, revealing and emblematic comments from the le…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Crypto Custodian Becomes the Latest Casualty
BitGo has agreed to buy Prime Trust as the crypto custodian becomes the latest casualty of the bear market (and the government's assault on the indus…
2 years, 9 months ago