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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, and the world’s largest tether exchange, has been hacked. The hackers drained the...

Ripple, which launched its XRP token in 2012, looks to be taking the ineffective Kik route in effectively arguing, “Hey, people use our token like real...

What’s keeping the crypto circus alive now the retail dollars have gone home?

ShapeShift was none too pleased when the WSJ put out a report in September 2018 claiming that the crypto exchange was being used to facilitate money...

Tethers are a stand-in for real dollars, used mainly on offshore, unbanked exchanges.

A previous plea deal fell apart at the last minute.

Whenever Northern Data wanted to buy another company, it just turned on the printer.

Three more jurisdictions issue cautions about the exchange’s tokenized stocks

Reginald Fowler, the Arizona businessman tied to hundreds of millions of dollars of Tether and Bitfinex’s missing money, appears to have conned his own...

The expensive lawyers who wrote this complaint seem only to have been able to find the crayons that day.

Fowler stumbled through his hearing today. All he can do now is hope for leniency.

Circle is starting to look more and more like Tether, only with a different critter on the wildcat banknotes

You just don’t come out and call your CEO a liar in a press release! 

The bankruptcy trustee for failed Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX is now free to hand over a trove of documents—including personal information of...

Bitfinex has filed yet another rebuke to the New York Attorney General’s ex parte court order. The April 24 order basically tells Bitfinex to submit...

How much of NFT trading is real anyway?

Are the pixie fairies sprinkling gold dust on Bitcoin’s market again? By the looks of things, you might think so.

We’ve decided to do something nice for the lovely people who send us money every month just to write good.

David Gerard and I have been having fun staying poor. 

I’ve stepped down from my role as senior editor of Modern Consensus. It was a matter of not seeing eye-to-eye with my direct report. I tried hard to...

Tether, the stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, has been mired in controversy. A complete timeline of events tells a full story.

What goes up, must come down

Amy Castor is a Boston-based writer and nocoiner who covers crypto and finance.

The largest gathering of computer security experts surprised everyone when it suggested replacing the entire internet with — a blockchain. 

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Just what you wanted for Christmas — our survey of the bitcoin ETF landscape! The SEC really doesn’t want to approve a bitcoin ETF — but we think it...

One of my favorite Tether skeptics, Trolly McTrollface, had to take down a parody post today.

With a sufficiently awful public disaster, there’s always room for more scorching.

Tether is Liberty Reserve on the blockchain

You should assume that all crypto firms are like Quadriga — Zeppelins flying high, waiting for a single spark.

Bitcoin miners are tuned to profits. That means the fastest rigs and the cheapest energy available, mostly in the form of fossil fuels.

Bored & Hungry opened in Long Beach. The goal is to sell BAYC, not food.

Affected Quadriga users have submitted claims for missing crypto, Canadian dollars, and U.S. dollars. EY now needs to convert all of the U.S. dollar and crypto...

Another in the SEC’s series of cases against unregistered crypto security broking.

Act I, Scene I: Pandemic Panic

Reggie Fowler, the former NFL minority owner linked to missing Tether and Bitfinex funds, owes his defense team more than $600,000, according to a new court...

Reginald Fowler’s lawyers confirmed that money is indeed at the center of a conflict between them and their client — and the main reason why they want to...

David Gerard and I discuss the DoJ’s criminal probe into Tether for “When the Music Stops.”

Did you know, there is an actual business for horse manure?   “It’s wild,” one horse farmer told Stable Management. “You can take this stuff that...

Bitfinex will not be able to dip into Tether’s reserves for 90 days, except to maintain normal business activities, according to a New York judge. The...

For a company with nearly $60B in assets, these pie charts are pathetic.

A “bitcoin friendly” payment processor with a reputation for accepting bank wires and not actually processing them, is allegedly sitting on $12 million CAD...

The DoJ has been circling Tether and Bitfinex for years now.