Tagged #crypto

Ryan Salame (former CEO of the Bahamian portion of FTX) has submitted his sentencing memo. He's asked for no more than 18 months imprisonment for his charges.

He was charged with conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Commission.

"Americans aren't confident in crypto. The crypto industry, however, says crypto is very important to Americans."

great to see such hard-hitting journalism from Politico

“Crypto researcher Molly White skewered [Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own] with the delight of Pete Wells after downing an Almond Joy cocktail at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.”

“Dixon tells me that White is ‘a professional anti-crypto person.’ ”

I have a new article out today in Businessweek: "The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong" (gift link).

I think this is the first time any of my writing has earned its own animated illustrations, which I am just delighted about.

Avraham Eisenberg, the person who was just found guilty of exploiting the Mango Markets crypto project, has now been charged with possession of child sexual abuse material.

this is not altogether surprising, given an august 2023 filing in his market manipulation case that disclosed that the FBI had found CSAM while searching a cell phone of his in relation to his crypto theft

interesting, Roger Stone deleted one of his tweets shilling a "MAGA Memecoin" after I pointed out that these tweets likely violate SEC rules

most of his other promo tweets remain, though, and have similar issues