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  1. If it has to be said out loud...(Tesla edition, part deux)
  2. Finally, a Tesla Model 3 for $35,000*
  3. Stuff Elon says
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  5. A message from the dear leader to the stakhanovites
  6. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  7. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  8. Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast
  9. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  10. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]
  11. Tesla needs cash, says Morgan Stanley
  12. Calling all suburban Bond villains
  13. If it has to be said out loud... (Tesla edition)
  14. Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
  15. Taking Tesla private
  16. Change of control: How would Tesla's creditors fare in a LoLBO?
  17. Tesla going private? We have questions...
  18. Tesla: a strange case of credits [Update]
  19. Je suis Montana Skeptic, part deux
  20. Je suis Montana Skeptic [Update]

“Paper money is going away and crypto is a far better way to transfer value.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Anatomy of a cryptocurrency scam

A five-day dive into the murky world of crypto-influencers.

By: Camilla Hodgson

JPMorgan jumps on the stablecoin bland-wagon

A new paradigm for effectuating electronic payments?

By: Jemima Kelly

Niall Ferguson joins blockchain project Ampleforth

“The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man." And now it is the turn of the stablecoin.

By: Jemima Kelly

BIS trolls bitcoin

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

How simple mathematics shows bitcoin's design is doomsday-level bad

By: Izabella Kaminska

Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times

  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. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  8. Wot is colour
  9. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  10. Wot is gravity
  11. Pie in the sky
  12. Some help please
Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times

A fitting chart for a ten-year-old.

By: Jemima Kelly

You know things are bad when Tether is in the crypto top 5

You know things are bad when Tether is in the crypto top 5

Dolla dolla bill y'all.

By: Jemima Kelly

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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  8. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  9. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  10. Don't write off the public sector
  11. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  12. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  13. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  14. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  15. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  16. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  17. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  18. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
The bitcoin price is wrong

You gotta have faith.

By: Jamie Powell

Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation

  1. Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times
  2. Creative destruction concerns
  3. Wage brain
  4. Et tu, Beto?
  5. Charts and misdemeanours
  6. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  7. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  8. Wot is colour
  9. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  10. Wot is gravity
  11. Pie in the sky
  12. 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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The bitcoin price is wrong
  8. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  9. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  10. Don't write off the public sector
  11. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  12. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  13. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  14. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  15. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  16. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  17. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  18. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
"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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The bitcoin price is wrong
  8. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  9. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  10. Don't write off the public sector
  11. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  12. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  13. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  14. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  15. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  16. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  17. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  18. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
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. BIS trolls bitcoin
  2. 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. BIS trolls bitcoin
  2. 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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The bitcoin price is wrong
  8. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  9. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  10. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  11. Don't write off the public sector
  12. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  13. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  14. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  15. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  16. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  17. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  18. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The bitcoin price is wrong
  8. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  9. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  10. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  11. Don't write off the public sector
  12. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  13. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  14. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  15. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  16. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  17. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  18. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
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. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  2. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  3. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  4. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  5. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  6. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  7. The bitcoin price is wrong
  8. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  9. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  10. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  11. Don't write off the public sector
  12. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  13. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  14. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  15. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  16. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  17. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  18. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  19. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  20. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
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. Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times
  2. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  3. Creative destruction concerns
  4. Wage brain
  5. Et tu, Beto?
  6. Charts and misdemeanours
  7. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  8. Wot is colour
  9. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  10. Wot is gravity
  11. Pie in the sky
  12. Some help please
The crypto periodic table (sigh)

Imperial College London is at it again.

By: Jemima Kelly

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