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It turns out “bond tokens” and “share tokens” might just be classed as securities

It turns out "bond tokens" and "share tokens" might just be classed as securities

“Having to apply US securities regulation to the system had a serious negative impact on our ability to launch”.

By: Jemima Kelly

The bitcoin price is wrong

  1. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  2. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  3. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  4. Don't write off the public sector
  5. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  6. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  7. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  8. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  9. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  10. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  11. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  12. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
The bitcoin price is wrong

You gotta have faith.

By: Jamie Powell

Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation

  1. Creative destruction concerns
  2. Wage brain
  3. Et tu, Beto?
  4. Charts and misdemeanours
  5. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  6. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  7. Wot is colour
  8. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  9. Wot is gravity
  10. Pie in the sky
  11. Some help please
Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation

Because who doesn't love a dreadful, misleading, four-month old chart.

By: Jemima Kelly

Gibraltar slaps £250k fine on WaveCrest; CEO stands down

Gibraltar slaps £250k fine on WaveCrest; CEO stands down

“In several respects its AML/ CFT systems and controls...fell below the standard expected of it for regulatory purposes.”

By: Jemima Kelly

“Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  4. Don't write off the public sector
  5. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  6. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  7. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  8. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  9. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  10. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  11. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  12. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
"Cryptoassets" are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?

Being an asset is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are one, you aren't.

By: Jemima Kelly

Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Don't write off the public sector
  5. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  6. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  7. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  8. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  9. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  10. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  11. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  12. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic

Some mothers do 'ave em. But most, thank God, don't.

By: Jemima Kelly

Crypto-shills

  1. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  2. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  3. The London School of Cryptonomics
  4. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  5. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  6. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  7. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  8. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  9. About that Petro
  10. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  11. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  12. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  13. ICO regulator anger translator
  14. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  15. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  16. Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig
  17. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  18. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  19. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
  20. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Cryptocurrencies
Crypto-shills

Last year, Joe Public went all in on crypto, and plenty egged them on.

By: Jamie Powell

Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market

  1. Forking hell, crypto is collapsing!
Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market

An absence of buyers is the phenomenon here.

By: Dan McCrum

A visual tour of the crypto-market right now

A visual tour of the crypto-market right now

Down down, deeper and down

By: Dan McCrum

Forking hell, crypto is collapsing!

  1. Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market
Forking hell, crypto is collapsing!

Brexit isn't the only car crash in town.

By: Jemima Kelly

The unholiest of holy wars: “Satoshi” vs “Bitcoin Jesus”

The unholiest of holy wars: "Satoshi" vs "Bitcoin Jesus"

“I AM Satoshi. Have a nice life.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Capitalising crypto

Capitalising crypto

Hodlers, meet risk-weightings.

By: Thomas Hale

Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be

  1. Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits
  2. Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?
  3. It's really happening... Woz joins Baroness Mone's blockchain company
  4. Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel
  5. The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  6. The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  7. Grant Shapps resigns from blockchain positions after FTAV discovers secret pay deal
  8. Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because ...?
Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be

Anarchists give way to Tory parliamentarians; free lunch gives way to “self-organised lunch”.

By: Jemima Kelly

Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  7. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  8. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  9. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  10. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  11. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  12. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]

“Think of it as getting free bitcoin seven years ago.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits

  1. Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be
  2. Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?
  3. It's really happening... Woz joins Baroness Mone's blockchain company
  4. Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel
  5. The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  6. The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  7. Grant Shapps resigns from blockchain positions after FTAV discovers secret pay deal
  8. Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because ...?
Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits

Stephen Hammond joins an ICO, then suddenly gets cold feet.

By: Jemima Kelly

Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?

  1. Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be
  2. Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits
  3. It's really happening... Woz joins Baroness Mone's blockchain company
  4. Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel
  5. The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  6. The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  7. Grant Shapps resigns from blockchain positions after FTAV discovers secret pay deal
  8. Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because ...?
Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?

A video suggests perhaps not the former.

By: Jemima Kelly

Alphaville gets FOOC'd

  1. Urban redevelopment, Potemkin façade edition
  2. Crypto-courting in Kaliningrad
Alphaville gets FOOC'd

Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent will profile bitcoin mining in Kaliningrad on Saturday!

By: Jemima Kelly

No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  9. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  10. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  11. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  12. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)

Fundraising via initial coin offerings has fallen off a cliff.

By: Jemima Kelly

People are freaking out about Tether

People are freaking out about Tether

The controversial “stable coin” is looking... not stable.

By: Jemima Kelly

Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
Coinbase wants to be "too big to fail", lol

The company that wants to build an open financial future for the world by... becoming a bank.

By: Jemima Kelly

Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition

  1. Crypto-shills
  2. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  3. The London School of Cryptonomics
  4. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  5. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  6. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  7. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  8. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  9. About that Petro
  10. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  11. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  12. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  13. ICO regulator anger translator
  14. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  15. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  16. Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig
  17. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  18. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  19. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
  20. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Cryptocurrencies
Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition

Regulation of ICOs and crypto-exchanges is a “matter of urgency”.

By: Dan McCrum

Into the ether

Into the ether

Smart-contracting party fades.

By: Dan McCrum

The crypto periodic table (sigh)

  1. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  2. Creative destruction concerns
  3. Wage brain
  4. Et tu, Beto?
  5. Charts and misdemeanours
  6. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  7. Wot is colour
  8. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  9. Wot is gravity
  10. Pie in the sky
  11. Some help please
The crypto periodic table (sigh)

Imperial College London is at it again.

By: Jemima Kelly

The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak

  1. Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be
  2. Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits
  3. Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?
  4. It's really happening... Woz joins Baroness Mone's blockchain company
  5. Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel
  6. The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  7. Grant Shapps resigns from blockchain positions after FTAV discovers secret pay deal
  8. Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because ...?
The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak

Michelle Mone's blockchain flop wasn't a flop! Saying so might get you reported to the police.

By: Jemima Kelly

How crypto PR works

How crypto PR works

Disappearing Softbank edition.

By: Hannah Murphy

Crypto pukes, again

Crypto pukes, again

Somebody pass the mop.

By: Jamie Powell

One for the ladies...

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
One for the ladies...

If you've a spare 495 euros, you might be sharing a bed with a friend on a blockchain cruise -- and one of you could go to the conference!

By: Jemima Kelly

Krugman gets it

Krugman gets it

He asks: what problem does crypto solve?

By: Dan McCrum

Crypto & government: from anarchy to amity in the USA

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
Crypto & government: from anarchy to amity in the USA

Coinbase sets up a PAC; the Winkevii donate to Cuomo; humble crypto bros beg for acceptance.

By: Jemima Kelly

Imperial College corrects eToro cryptopuff: it wasn't 'research' after all

Imperial College corrects eToro cryptopuff: it wasn't 'research' after all

The distinction is not academic.

By: Jemima Kelly

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