State of the Market

Bitcoin spent the week teasing traders with a taste of $20K, as easing inflation & heightened enforcement offered mixed signals about the asset class's path forward. For the first time in nearly 3 years, U.S. consumer prices (excluding food & [...]

Even as Bitcoin eyes $19K and Grayscale's GBTC discount narrows, many investors are steering clear, anxiously waiting for the last shoe to drop. The Digital Currency Group drama hasn't reached any real resolution. CEO Barry Silbert continues to fend off [...]

Investors were in no mood to celebrate Bitcoin's 14th birthday, though the ongoing liquidity crunch has been a gift to crypto attorneys. As credit lines crumble amid a sweeping collapse in leverage, industry executives are opting to take legal disputes [...]

The weather outside is frightful, with frigid headwinds battering crypto on multiple fronts heading into 2023. As record-setting freezes grip North America, heavyweight Bitcoin miners like Riot Blockchain (RIOT) have been forced to suspend operations, curtailing power consumption and temporarily [...]

In the depths of crypto winter, FTX executives are home for the holidays. After a brief stint in a Bahamian prison, Sam Bankman-Fried waived his right to formal extradition proceedings, surrendering himself to the long reach of the U.S. regulatory [...]

Investors better not pout about Powell's December rate raise— following 4 consecutive 75 basis point hikes, 50 bps is hardly a lump of coal for 2022's final FOMC. Year-over-year inflation remains above 7%, and some even suspect the Fed will [...]

The slow motion car-crash of crypto contagion is gradually losing momentum as investors cautiously settle into the post-FTX era. Make no mistake, Sam Bankman-Fried is still the industry's primary person of interest. The Senate Banking Committee has demanded he attend [...]

Disgraced crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried continues to command the spotlight, airing apologies for FTX's failure on a variety of primetime TV programs. During a Wednesday-night appearance at the New York Times' Dealbook conference, SBF remained committed to his story— FTX [...]

"We got overconfident and careless." One week post-FTX implosion, ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried turns to Twitter to plead his case. Sam claims he failed to fully grasp his risk exposure, referencing a napkin math estimate of "~$5b of leverage, backed by [...]

RIP to FTX after SBF reports funds are MIA. Once praised as crypto's quintessential success story, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried now operates in crisis mode, scrambling to secure emergency funding for the industry's 3rd-largest exchange. By now you've undoubtedly heard [...]