[JANUARY] Post-FTX, South Korea Remains Cryptoverse’s Crown Jewel
As measured by unique website visitors during the first nine months of 2022, the Asian nations of South Korea, Singapore, and Japan were the...
[DECEMBER] What We Learn from Our Villains
We know the history books will pillory Sam Bankman-Fried, and that a pair of three-letter sequences—SBF and FTX—are forever toxified. We know that the...
[SPECIAL] FTX Collapse Strikes South Korea with Vengeance
For the second time in six months, South Korea has been shellacked by a crypto collapse. Following the May 2022 dollar depeg that sank...
[NOVEMBER] Another Empire, Another House of Cards
It was but a few months ago that Sam Bankman-Fried was preening about as a god amongst mortals, contemplating which troubled crypto businesses he...
[OCTOBER] Reasoning in an Age of Emotion
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried would be amenable to competency tests before retail traders could engage in high-stakes trading. That’s according to his response to...
[SEPTEMBER] The Future is Regulated
August was a busy month for the crypto overlords within the South Korean government. There was a mid-month announcement by the Korean Financial Intelligence...
[AUGUST] Where People are the Product, Buyer Beware
The spectacular beating suffered by the cryptosphere recently has left many investors gun-shy, but at least one industry titan is still making big moves....
[JULY] Winning When the Enemy is Us
Bitcoin has lost about a third of its value since June 1, and just about every major cryptoasset has sustained equally vicious beatings during...
[JUNE] UST Stablecoin Collapses Under Moderate Instability
Last month the world discovered that the “stable” in “stablecoin” is more an aspirational endeavor than planetarily ordained fact. The TerraUSD algorithmic stablecoin, or...
[MAY] Nobody Covers the Front Desk at a DeFi Lobby
Decentralized Finance is one of the more prominently utopian ideals promulgated by diehard crypto revolutionaries. At its heart is the promise of frictionless exchange,...