Cryptocurrencies

Let me count the ways...

'If it's shaky, push it over!' - Rick Roderick on Nietzsche, and maybe Dogecoin?

You know, just to make sure the brokerage giant really hears it this time.

Learn the lesson now that Virgil Griffith is learning the hard way.

The next time you lot wanna make money moves, try not to get scammed maybe?

No news is good news and oh look here’s Mark Zuckerberg again to ruin everything.

But let’s be clear, just because someone buys an NFT, that almost always also means that they don’t own the underlying copyrighted work that their hash points to on the internet.

Given that existing currency is already pretty digital, what would really change if we went to a central bank-issued digital dollar?

No, we’re not talking about David Solomon.

Grandpa Joe’s not quite sure what to do with these newfangled doohickies. But hedge funds are.

An NFT is more like a digital certificate of authenticity that proves that one owns a 'special' copy of a work of art. The purchaser is only buying a slab of code.

They’re essentially one and the same to the Berkshire Hathaway number two.

The perils of romance and cryptocurrencies.

And other tales of late American capitalism.

Ripple is manifestly not a currency. But is it a security or a commodity or something else entirely?

Decentralized finance and cryptocurrency are a criminal’s perfect match.

Just because you’re decentralized doesn’t mean you can run a lottery in this town.

Matches made in hell.

Blockchain comes to the foreign-exchange foodchain.

In fairness, the executives saying so probably didn’t know it until they needed to come up with a catchy thing to say at a Congressional hearing.

In a timely but ultimately meaningless coincidence, there’s also another crypto scandal brewing.

The SEC can’t issue subpoenas over Zoom.

For on that day, which shall go down in history, you shall gain the ability to trade bitcoins without trading bitcoins or even having bitcoins traded on your behalf.

Maybe Congress would like to take Gary Gensler off its back? Please?

He’s back to calling them worthless and comparing them to cigarettes.

The Justice Department has a new squad of crypto-cops, a new taste for white-collar criminal enforcement, a new demand for cyber-ransom notifications. And if you happen to know where all of Tether’s money is, it would appreciate a call on that, as well.

And also, you know, his ability to save cryptos going forward.

What the Hill giveth, it taketh away via the IRS.

Just like all other cryptocurrencies.

The court-appointed examiner is not so sure.

Those parties being the IRS, and the people he was shilling ‘coins to.