Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors

Block, a vehement crypto skeptic, has spent the past 18 months doing forensic blockchain research. He uses open-source tools to follow flows of money between crypto companies, repeatedly demonstrating how shadow banks and nefarious scammers inflate the value of worthless assets in order to generate enormous wealth that exists only on paper.

MARKETS / FINANCE

Ireland's finance minister signaled on Monday that the government would make a larger budgetary adjustment of 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion) in 2012 despite being confident of meeting this year's ...

A brief-ish history of crypto audits

Bitcoin’s price had crashed following the collapse of the Mt Gox exchange, Beijing’s hostility to crypto was strengthening and miners globally had been switching off. OKCoin was central in reviving ...