Daniel Roberts
17 posts
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Avoids Heavy Losses as FTX Contagion Spreads
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. This being week two of the FTX disaster…
Edward Snowden: Sanctioning of Ethereum Mixer Tornado Cash Was ‘Deeply Illiberal and Profoundly Authoritarian’
Three months after the U.S. government blacklisted the Ethereum mixing tool Tornado Cash, Edward Snowden called it a…
BlockFi Mulls Bankruptcy Filing and Layoffs in Wake of FTX Collapse, Met With Binance
In brief BlockFi has retained an advisor to look into a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, has approached…
What Makes a Shitcoin ‘Shit’? Major Figures in Crypto Disagree
What makes a cryptocurrency a “shitcoin” vs the more benign label “altcoin?” And while we are at it,…
Elon Musk: Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Set Off My BS Detector’ When He Approached About Twitter Investment
After the epic collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s entire crypto empire this week, even Elon Musk took a moment…
FTX Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Sports Marketing on Road to Bankruptcy
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX launched in 2019 and soared to a $32 billion valuation in just three years—now…
Elon Musk, Twitter, Dogecoin, Bluesky, and the Decentralized Social Media Race
Elon actually did it. The gleeful jester king of Crypto Twitter—whose tweets about Dogecoin have repeatedly moved the…