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- Video, radio and podcast crypto commentary
- Crypto-related articles by me for other publications
- Press crypto commentary (including book mentions)
Documentaries
- Sky News Arabia, 10 March 2021: ماهو البتكوين؟ وهل نحن أمام فقاعة ثانية للعملة الرقمية؟ (What is Bitcoin? Are we facing a second bubble of digital currency?)
- New Kids On The Blockchain — A Savage Journey To The Heart Of Crypto And The ICO, 2 May 2020
- Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet, 9 May 2020
- Dead Man’s Switch, December 2021
Video, radio and podcast crypto commentary
- BBC Newsnight, 14 September 2017 (excerpt)
- Unbubbled, 17 November 2017: Bitcoin Boom or Bust? by Jamie King and Sarah Henry
- Russia-1 20:00 Vesti, 4 December 2017: Биткоин никогда не спит: в США появились первые биткоин-миллиардеры (“Bitcoin never sleeps: the first bitcoin billionaires appear in the USA“) by
- BBC News at Ten, 20 December 2017 by Rory Cellan-Jones
- BBC News, 21 December 2017: Bitcoin: My 400 coin bet paid off, but is it too late for others? by Rory Cellan-Jones
- BBC World Service, 5 January 2018: Tech Tent: The Big Tech Backlash
- BBC News, 28 April 2018: Click: Mining for Money
- HARKII Of Sound Mind podcast, Episode 1, 30 April 2018: Why I don’t think blockchain will change the music industry (includes transcript)
- Intelligence Squared podcast, 2 July 2018: Blockchain: Quantum leap forward or digital snake oil?
- BBC World Service Trending, 24 August 2018: Virtually Making A Fortune? (radio)
- BBC News, 27 August 2018: The virtual land selling for millions (video)
- BBC Radio 5 Live Drive, 28 August 2018: And as investors spend real money on virtual reality land, we’re asking how much of our lives will soon be lived online? (2:39:58 on) (archive of the segment)
- BBC World Service, 14 September 2018: Tech Tent: Watching Apple
- BBC Radio 5 Live, Up All Night, 24 October 2018: interviewed by Rhod Sharp about Initiative Q (3:46:30 to 3:51:17 on recording)
- BBC Radio 5 Live, Wake Up To Money, 14 December 2018: What is Initiative Q?
- Global News Toronto 640, 5 February 2019: interviewed by Kelly Cutrara about the collapse of QuadrigaCX
- CBC Vancouver, The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn, 6 February 2019: cryptocurrency debate
- BBC 5 Live Drive, 6 February 2019: interviewed by Anna Foster about the collapse of QuadrigaCX
- Cointelegraph Hodler’s Digest, 10 February 2019: commentary on the collapse of QuadrigaCX
- BBC Radio 4, 12 March 2019: File on 4: The Crypto Factor — The Winners and Losers in Virtual Investment
- Cointelegraph Hodler’s Digest, 24 March 2019: commentary on QuadrigaCX and Michael Patryn
- BBC World Service, 4 April 2019: Business Daily: BItcoin bounces back
- Cointelegraph Hodler’s Digest, 14 April 2019: commentary on Bitcoin and asset bubbles
- Global News Toronto 640, 24 April 2019: Blockchain crash course — interviewed by Kelly Cutrara for Toronto Blockchain Week
- Cointelegraph Hodler’s Digest, 16 June 2019: commentary on Cathio
- Global News Toronto 640, 19 June 2019: Facebook jumps into the crypto currency market — interviewed by Kelly Cutrara on Facebook’s Libra project
- Euronews, 14 October 2019: Facebook Cryptocurrency — quoted by Guy Shone
- Global News Toronto 640, 15 October 2019: What’s the deal with Facebook’s foray into crypto currency? — interviewed by Kelly Cutrara on Facebook’s Libra project
- The Economist, 25 November 2019: Futurewatch: The crypto craze
- NTD Business News, 16 March 2021: Expert Warns About NFT Digital Crypto Art
- NTD Business News, 26 March 2021: Instagrammer Cons $2.5M in Bitcoin: FBI
- NTD Business News, 8 April 2021: Crypto Hits $2 Trillion, What’s Next?
- NTD Business News, 14 April 2021: Coinbase Valued at $100B in Nasdaq Debut
- BBC World Service, Business Daily, 26 May 2021: Dogecoin or bust
- NTD Business News, 1 June 2021: China’s Robinhoods Eye US Market with Cryptos
- NTD Business News, 7 June 2021: Trump Says Bitcoin ‘Seems Like a Scam’
- BBC Persian, 9 June 2021: آیا رمزارزها میتوانند رقیبی برای پول رایج باشند؟ گفتگو با : دیوید جرارد، کارشناس رمزارز (Can cryptocurrencies compete with common currency?)
- When The Music Stops, 10 June 2021: Proof of Waste & Chia w/ David Gerard — interviewed by Aviv Milner
- CBC: A Death in Cryptoland, E6: The End Game — on QuadrigaCX
- CHAD, 13 July 2021: What is going on with Binance? Twitter space, panel discussion
- When The Music Stops, 29 July 2021: Target Letter Tether w/ Amy Castor & David Gerard — interviewed by Aviv Milner
- NTD Business News, 7 September 2021: El Salvador Becomes First to Adopt Bitcoin; China Clamps Down on Celebrities And Fans
- CoinMarketRecap Podcast, 10 September 2021: ‘Bitcoin in El Salvador won’t end well’ — interviewed by Connor Sephton
- NTD Business News, 31 December 2021: Sotheby’s $100M Record-Breaking Year W/ Nfts
Crypto-related articles by me for other publications
(not including reprints — but including Rocknerd, which is also mine)
- Rocknerd, 23 July 2015: Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work
- Rocknerd, 7 August 2015: More on the blockchain-music hype: what PeerTracks thinks it’s doing
- Rocknerd, 2 December 2015: Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either
- Rocknerd, 10 August 2016: Kim Dotcom’s Mega 3, with Bitcoin. Two bad ideas that go worse together
- Rocknerd, 19 August 2016: SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity
- early version of the section from chapter 12
- Rocknerd, 1 September 2016: Fool’s gold rush: Blockchain initiatives for everybody! Especially the artists, our eternal and only concern
- Rocknerd, 6 November 2016: Why Blockchain won’t save the music industry, and Imogen Heap wants to spyware you
- Rocknerd, 27 April 2017: Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work
- Rocknerd, 29 August 2017: Entertainment on the blockchain with ICOs: Opus, Viberate’s convicted felon adviser, Kim Dotcom
- HypeBot, 31 August 2017: Why You Can’t Put The Music Industry On A Blockchain
- Rocknerd, 12 November 2017: Björkcoin: Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version)
- Rocknerd extended version of this blog post
- CoinDesk, 12 December 2017: 2017: The ‘Butt’ of Bitcoin’s Joke
- Rocknerd, 6 April 2018: Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment
- City A.M., 10 July 2018: Approach Blockchain with Caution
- Rocknerd, 24 July 2018: eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good
- Kathimerini (Καθημερινή), 9 September 2018: Κρυπτονομίσματα: καινοτομία ή «φούσκα»; (“Cryptocurrency: innovation or ‘bubble’?”)
- The Block, 31 January 2019: The Buttcoin Standard: the problem with Bitcoin
- Decrypt Media, 8 February 2019: FreedomCoin: Just another word for nothing left to lose?
- Foreign Policy, 13 February 2019: Forget Bitcoin, Try Your Mattress
- Rocknerd, 9 March 2019: Cryptorave: Arpanet, M.E.S.H., Amnesia Scanner — Romantso, Athens, Saturday 16 February 2019
- Decrypt Media, 14 March 2019: The fictional trading reserve
- Foreign Policy, 19 March 2019: Neo-Nazis Bet Big on Bitcoin (And Lost)
- Decrypt Media, 22 March 2019: The case of CipherBlade, ShapeShift’s PR saviour (additional reporting)
- Newsweek Japan, 22 March 2019: ネオナチと仮想通貨の意外な関係 (“Neo-Nazis Bet Big on Bitcoin (And Lost)”) — translation of piece for Foreign Policy
- Decrypt Media, 13 April 2019: Crypto: A movie review
- Isocracy, 25 May 2019: Cryptocurrencies: A Bubble Economy with The Art of the Steal
- Foreign Policy, 24 June 2019: Facebook’s New Currency Has Big Claims and Bad Ideas
- Foreign Policy, 16 July 2020: Twitter Got Lucky With the Great Bitcoin Heist
- Foreign Policy, 11 February 2021: Confused About Dogecoin? Here’s How It (Doesn’t) Work.
- Foreign Policy, 19 March 2021: It’s a $69 Million JPEG, but Is It Art?
- Foreign Policy, 23 May 2021: Chia Is a New Way to Waste Resources for Cryptocurrency
- Foreign Policy, 15 June 2021: El Salvador Is Printing Money With Bitcoin
- Foreign Policy, 17 September 2021: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is a Farce
- Foreign Policy, 6 December 2021: Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin.
Press crypto commentary (including book mentions)
- Financial Times, 14 May 2017: Crypto currency offerings spur speculation frenzy by Izabella Kaminska and Paul Murphy
- BitsOnline, 9 July 2017: RAC the Next Artist to Try Ethereum, Will It Work This Time? by Jon Southurst
- Financial Times, 2 August 2017: Rival bitcoin currency endures volatile trading debut by Izabella Kaminska
- CoinDesk, 17 September 2017: Estonia Wants to ICO, But Is Currency Law a Deal-Breaker? by Aaron Stanley
- Devolution Review, 18 September 2017: Going Bearish on Bitcoin: Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century by Yaël Ossowski
- also on Huffington Post Canada, 19 September 2017: Bitcoin Has Become About The Payday, Not Its Potential
- Cultura Digital, 19 October 2017: És blockchain la solució per als músics i la recaptació de drets? (“Is blockchain the solution for musicians and the collection of rights?“) by Palgaba
- Tarnkappe.info, 11 November 2017: Björk pusht Kryptowährungen: top oder Flop? (“Björk pushes cryptocurrencies: top or flop?“) by Lars “Ghandy” Sobiraj
- BitsOnline, 28 November 2017: Bitsonline Exclusive: an Interview with Mo Jalloh of Zimrii Music by Stacy Nash
- WikiTribune, 15 December 2017: Bitcoin boomed in 2017, where will it go next? by Linh Ngyuen
- News.com.au, 3 January 2018: Coinspot rubbishes liquidity claims, says it is ‘getting closer’ to turning on Australian dollar deposits by Frank Chung
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 5 January 2018: Crypto cards just suffered a major setback by Izabella Kaminska
- BBC News, 9 January 2018: CES 2018: Kodak soars on KodakCoin and Bitcoin mining plans by Chris Foxx and Leo Kelion
- Conseiller, 10 January 2018: Kodak va lancer sa cryptomonnaie (“Kodak is going to launch its cryptocurrency”)
- Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2018: Kodak shares soar as it becomes latest company to jump on cryptocurrency craze by Matthew Field
- Factor, 10 January 2018: Kodak is the latest company to see its share price soar thanks to cryptocurrency by Daniel Davies
- ICO Examiner, 10 January 2018: Kodak Focuses on ICO Sale to Capture Growth in Post Bankruptcy Era by Alistair Johnston
- Inc., 10 January 2018: KODAKCoin and 3 Other Ridiculous Cryptocurrencies People Are Going Nuts Over by Will Yakowicz
- La Tribune, 10 January 2018: Folie des cryptomonnaies : même Kodak lance son Kodakcoin (“Craziness of cryptocurrencies: even Kodak launches Kodakcoin“) by Delphine Cuny
- Zoznam, 10 January 2018: Prenájom ťažobných počítačov: Akcie Kodaku vystrelili po tom, čo firma oznámila plány na KodakCoin (“Rental of mining computers: Kodak shares fire up after the company announces plans for KodakCoin”)
- Ilta-Sanomat, 11 January 2017: Entinen kamerasuuruus lähti bitcoin-bisnekseen, osakekurssi pomppasi 120% — ”Tyhmintä, mitä olen ikinä nähnyt” (“Former camera power joins bitcoin business, share price jumps 120% — ‘The dumbest thing I’ve ever seen'”) by Tuomas Linnake
- Sohu, 11 January 2018: 柯达的ICO和挖矿机 比假照片得大奖更传奇的故事 (“Kodak’s ICO and mining machine won fantastic awards more than fake photos”)
- Billboard, 12 January 2018: What Is Bitcoin, Blockchain’s Future in the Music Industry? by Robert Levine
- DAMNews, 12 January 2018: Kodak Launch Crypto-Digital Asset Token And Blockchain For Photographers by Ralph Windsor
- MoneyWeek, 19 January 2018: Steer well clear of Kodak’s crypto offerings by Ben Judge
- BBC News, 24 January 2018: Arsenal signs crypto-currency deal with gaming firm CashBet by Rory Cellan-Jones
- The New Stack, 25 January 2018: Charity Mines Cryptocurrency to Help Low-Income Folks Post Bail by Kimberley Mok
- Blinkist, 26 January 2018: The Blockchain of Command: What Is Cryptocurrency & How Does It Work? by Quinton O’Reilly
- News.com.au, 29 January 2018: ‘Without this bitcoin price would collapse’: Fears grow over tether ‘printing press’ as auditors part ways by Frank Chung
- Coinspeaker, 29 January 2018: Tether Says That Its Relationship with Auditor Friedman LLP Has ‘Dissolved’ by Bhushan Akolkar
- Guardian, 29 January 2018: Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies – what digital money really means for our future by Alex Hern
- Centric Digital, 31 January 2018: Will Digital Currency Bring this Legacy Brand Back from the Dead? by Jason Albanese
- Brandchannel, 1 February 2018: Blockchain-Based KodakCoin Delay Brings Out the Skeptics by Sheila Shayon
- Mashable, 13 February 2018: Salon’s new business plan is running cryptocurrency-mining malware on your computer by Jack Morse
- Tech Times, 13 February 2018: Salon Wants To Get Rid Of Ads By Asking Users To Mine Cryptocurrency Instead by Jean-Pierre Chigne
- Tokeniest, 14 February 2018: ‘Suppress ads. Lend your computer’s unused processing power for crypto mining’ Salon by Fred Krueger
- Avast Security Blog, 18 February 2018:
- CBC News, 27 February 2018: How blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, could change your life by Ramona Pringle
- The Verge, 7 March 2018: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless: ‘You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means’ by Adrianne Jeffries
- Sourcing Journal, 7 March 2018: Blockchain Security Flaws Prompt Concerns Over Readiness for Enterprise by Jessica Binns
- Observer, 10 March 2018: Does blockchain offer hype or hope? by Gian Volpicelli
- Express (Croatia), 11 March 2018: Kriptovalute — banke su im bile žrtve, a sad ih kopiraju (“Cryptocurrency — banks were their targets, now they copy them”) by Antonija Vrcic
- BBC News, 14 March 2018: Google bans crypto-currency adverts
- Hexus, 14 March 2018: Google to ban cryptocurrency advertising from June by Mark Tyson
- ITHardware.pl, 14 March 2018: Google zakazuje reklam kryptowalut. To kolejny cios w kryptowaluty (“Google prohibits cryptocurrency ads. This is another blow to cryptocurrencies”) by Paweł Czajkowski
- ShortList, 14 March 2018: Here’s why Bitcoin has been crashing and what it all means by Harvey Day
- Daily Express, 15 March 2018: Bitcoin price: Why is bitcoin falling today? BTC market sell off hits all month low by Sebastian Kettley — updated version
- Curbed, 21 March 2018: Cashing out: Bitcoin’s young investors put their digital currency to work in the physical world by Andrew Zaleski
- Vice, 2 April 2018: Criminals are hijacking your computer to mine cryptocurrency by David Gilbert
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 6 April 2018: Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn’t like? by Jemima Price
- The Register, 12 April 2018: When SecureRandom()… isn’t: JavaScript fingered for poking cash-spilling holes in Bitcoin wallets by Thomas Claburn
- Bleeping Computer, 15 April 2018: Old JavaScript Crypto Flaw Puts Bitcoin Funds at Risk by Catalin Cimpanu
- Chepicap, 3 May 2018: Gamers raise over $30,000 for Syria by mining ETH by Conor Maloney
- TechCrunch, 3 May 2018: Reports of institutional crypto desks have been greatly exaggerated by John Biggs
- BBC News, 4 May 2018: Is Messi’s blockchain interest a sign football is changing? by Bill Wilson
- VeryPossible, 10 May 2018: Five Ways Blockchain Could Disrupt the Media Industry by Tyler Jenks
- 2Miners, 17 May 2018: Expert Roundup: Upcoming Ethereum POS Switch
- Boing Boing, 23 May 2018: A hard look at the wastefulness of “proof of work,” the idea at the core of the blockchain by Cory Doctorow
- Alphr, 30 May 2018: The pessimist’s guide to the future, from virtual reality to driverless cars by Nicole Kobie
- Interesting Engineering, 29 May 2018: Why a Blockchain-Powered World Is Still a Long Way Away: 11 Blockchain Experts on the Challenges Ahead by Saoirse Kerrigan
- TechCrunch, 2 June 2018: Not just another decentralized web whitepaper? by Natasha Lomas
- American Institute for Financial Research, 6 June 2018: Bitcoin as a Novel Financial Game by J. P. Koning
- Financial Times, 8 June 2018: Who really owns bitcoin now? Long-term holders cashed out to short-term speculators, data show by Hannah Murphy
- CryptoCompare, 8 June 2018: $28 billion of Bitcoin ‘lost’, say analysts by Caroline Preece
- CryptoNews, 9 June 2018: The Great Backlash Against Blockchain Hype by Simon Chandler
- Vice, 18 June 2018: What you need to know about Tether, the cryptocurrency accused of propping up Bitcoin by David Gilbert
- Heise Online, 28 June 2018: Smartphone-Akkus per NFC laden: Aus für skurrile BattBump-Kampagne by Torsten Kleinz
- BTC Wires, 3 July 2018: The Blockchain Debate At Westminster By Intelligence Squared by Prashant Singh
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 4 July 2018: Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because …? by Jemima Kelly
- Bitsonline, 5 July 2018: New British Report Looks to Blockchain to Improve Function of Government by Ian Edwards
- BBC News, 16 July 2018: Kodak Bitcoin mining ‘scam’ evaporates
- DataNews, 17 July 2018: Le ‘Kodak’ KashMiner était une supercherie; De ‘Kodak’ KashMiner was oplichterij (“The ‘Kodak’ KashMiner was a hoax”) by Pieter Van Nuffel
- The Next Web, 26 July 2018: Here’s how GDPR and the blockchain can coexist by Dave Michels
- The Register, 7 August 2018: Funnily enough, no, infosec bods aren’t mad keen on W. Virginia’s vote-by-phone-app plan by Shaun Nichols
- Vanity Fair, 7 August 2018: “A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming, Just in Time for the Midterms by Maya Kosoff
- Developpez.com, 12 August 2018: Le Comité JPEG explore l’utilisation de la blockchain pour introduire des DRM dans JPEG (“The JPEG Committee explores the use of the blockchain to introduce DRM in JPEG“) by Stéphane Le Calme
- Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2018: The Mystery Behind Tether, the Crypto World’s Digital Dollar by Paul Vigna and Steven Russolillo
- ZDNet.fr, 14 August 2018: Le comité JPEG réfléchit à mettre de la blockchain dans son standard (“The JPEG committee is thinking about putting blockchain in its standard“) by Louis Adam
- Breaker, 15 August 2018: The U.N.’s Powerful New Way To Aid Refugees by Corin Faife
- BBC News Mundo, 28 August 2018: Decentraland, la “ciudad” creada por el argentino Esteban Ordano que ha vendido más de US$28 millones en tierra virtual (“Decentraland, the ‘city’ created by the Argentine Esteban Ordano that has sold more than US$28 million in virtual land”)
- Times Higher Education, 30 August 2018: ‘Hype’ warning after universities take cryptocurrency cash by David Matthews (print title, p6-7: “‘Hype’ warning after elite universities accept cryptocurrency cash”
- The Economist Technology Quarterly, 1 September 2018: How to put bitcoin into perspective (print title: “Riding the rollercoaster”)
- The Economist Technology Quarterly, 1 September 2018: The promise of the blockchain technology (print title: “Nailing it”)
- BBC News, 11 September 2018: Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency by Chris Baraniuk
- BBC News, 14 September 2018: Tech Tent: Has crypto-currency peaked? by Rory Cellan-Jones
- South China Morning Post: YoungPost, 18 September 2018: Blockchain-based platform ‘Decentraland’ wants you to pay real money for virtual land by Susan Ramsay
- New York Times, 24 September 2018: Walmart’s Veggie-Tracking B.L.T.: Blockchain Lettuce Technology by Michael Corkery and Nathaniel Popper (print title, 25 September 2018: “From Farm to Blockchain: Walmart Tracks Its Lettuce”)
- Decrypt Media, 28 September 2018: How to create a person by Robert Stevens
- Yahoo Finance, 11 October 2018: This startup wants to secure absentee voting with a blockchain by Rob Pegoraro
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 12 October 2018: Sorry Civil, ‘crypto-economics’ and ‘constitutions’ won’t save journalism by Jemima Kelly
- El Economista, 15 October 2018: El hundimiento de una criptomoneda amenaza con reventar el mercado mundial de bitcoins by Victor Ventura
- BBC News, 23 October 2018: Is blockchain living up to the hype? by Tom Espiner
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 26 October 2018: Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas by Jemima Kelly
- Wales Online, 26 October 2018: Initiative Q and what you need to know about the new scheme your friends are sharing by Will Hayward
- Digital Spy, 29 October 2018: What is Initiative Q: Is it the new bitcoin, or just one big fake scam? by Owen Gough
- News.com.au, 30 October 2018: What is Initiative Q? Payment network insists it’s not a ‘pyramid scheme’ by Frank Chung
- Shell Global: Inside Energy, 8 November 2018: Blockchain: hype or hope? by Judith Durkin
- Vox, 8 November 2018: This new would-be currency isn’t crypto — but is it for real? by Nadra Nittle
- Financial Times, 16 November 2018: Stablecoins are crypto sector’s next big bet by Hannah Murphy
- TRT World, 17 November 2018: How the IMF and central banks are taking on cryptocurrencies by Saad Hasan
- Wired UK, 19 November 2018: This is how politicians should regulate the blockchain by Nicole Kobie
- Salon, 25 November 2018: Why we must regulate the blockchain by Kevin Werbach
- Decrypt Media, 6 December 2018: How to learn about crypto (without getting scammed) by Ben Munster
- InfoQ, 20 December 2018: The Current State of Blockchain — Panel Discussion (Part 2) by Ben Evans
- Finder, 21 December 2018: Why have cryptocurrency prices been rising? by Andrew Munro
- El Economista, 28 December 2018: El año en que pinchó la burbuja del bitcoin deja a los mineros en pérdidas y a los mercados sin compradores by Victor Ventura
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 3 January 2019: Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times by Jemima Kelly
- Financial Post, 9 January 2019: Terence Corcoran: Blockchain’s groundbreaking, world-shaking, life-changing technology revolution has been cancelled by Terence Corcoran
- Decrypt Media, 10 January 2019: A KodakOne Moment by Ben Munster
- Decrypt Media, 15 January 2019: Fork, Interrupted by Ben Munster
- Decrypt Media, 1 February 2019: The Ten Most Ridiculous Things “On the Blockchain” by Ben Munster
- Breaker, 4 February 2019: Lyn Ulbricht Pushed Herself to the Brink of Death for #FreeRoss. Her Last, Best Hope: President Trump by Mark Yarm
- CBC News, 5 February 2019: Canadian case is another warning about the murky world of cryptocurrency by Don Pittis
- The Economist, 7 February 2019: What happens when your bitcoin banker dies? Apparently you can take it with you after all
- BBC News, 14 February 2019: JP Morgan creates first US bank-backed crypto-currency by
- News.bitcoin.com, 15 February 2019: 3 People Who Hate Bitcoin With a Passion by Kai Sedgwick
- Finance Magnates, 18 February 2019: BitRail Determined to Recover After Fierce Criticism Around KodakCoin by Rachel McIntosh
- BankInfoSecurity, 1 March 2019: Facebook’s Cryptocoin: A Disguised PayPal on a Blockchain? by Jeremy Kirk
- Bitrates, 14 March 2019: Szabo’s Law, Crypto-Libertarianism, Techno-Utopias, & Decentralized Governance Part 1 by Martin Banov
- Decrypt Media, 4 April 2019: Finally, a use case for blockchain! by Ben Munster
- Decrypt Media, 5 April 2019: Larry Sanger wants Everipedia to be a post-truth Wikipedia by Ben Munster
- Decrypt Media, 9 April 2019: Chinese state planner wants to ban crypto mining by Ben Munster
- The Economist, 26 April 2019: Untethered: A fresh probe raises fears of systemic problems in the cryptocurrency market
- Decrypt Media, 4 May 2019: How to pitch your blockchain startup to journalists by Ben Munster
- The Economist, 4 May 2019: Tether tantrum: Concern about cryptocurrencies could lead regulators to crack down
- Decrypt Media, 9 May 2019: Bitcoin’s top mystic explains the price surge by Ben Munster
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 13 May 2019: Bitcoin is the 10-year Treasury of our time by Jemima Kelly
- CNBC, 14 May 2019: Bitcoin passes $8,000 as value more than doubles in 2019 by David Reid
- TechCrunch, 14 May 2019: Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound by Jonathan Shieber
- Decrypt Media, 21 May 2019: Craig Wright files copyright claim for Bitcoin white paper by Ben Munster
- The Independent, 21 May 2019: Bitcoin price explained: How a single trade crashed the cryptocurrency market by Anthony Cuthbertson
- BBC News, 24 May 2019: Facebook plans to launch ‘GlobalCoin’ currency in 2020 by Szu Ping Chan
- BBC News Brasil, 24 May 2019: Facebook: O que se sabe sobre a GlobalCoin, criptomoeda que a empresa quer lançar em 2020 (“Facebook: What is known about GlobalCoin, a crypto-currency that the company wants to launch in 2020“)
- Cointelegraph, 24 May 2019: Staking Claim on Bitcoin — Does Craig Wright’s Copyright Filing Hold Legal Merit? by Simon Chandler
- Decrypt Media, 24 May 2019: Facebook’s cryptocurrency to roll out in 2020 by Ben Munster
- BBC News, 18 June 2019: Facebook’s Libra pitches to be the future of money by Rory Cellan-Jones
- Vice News, 18 June 2019: Facebook Just Launched Its Own Version of Bitcoin. Here’s What You Need to Know by David Gilbert
- Yahoo Finance UK, 18 June 2019: Facebook hasn’t told us: why launch a cryptocurrency? by Oscar Williams-Grut
- Yahoo News UK, 18 June 2019: The Catch-up: Why on Earth has Facebook launched its own currency?
- Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2019: The truth about concerns over Facebook’s digital currency — and the questions still left unanswered by James Cook and Matthew Field
- Wired UK, 19 June 2019: Facebook’s Libra currency won’t replace your money by Nicole Kobie
- Decrypt Media, 21 June 2019: Don’t call Libra a stablecoin by Ben Munster
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 1 July 2019: Wha-Tether could be going on with the bitcoin price? by Jemima Kelly
- News.com.au, 4 July 2019: Facebook Libra Coin: Experts say cryptocurrency will be game changer by James Hall
- CryptoNews, 19 July 2019: Why is Binance Really Burning its Own Stash of BNB Tokens? by Simon Chandler
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 31 July 2019: Craig Wright to become the world’s top philanthropist. Allegedly. by Jemima Kelly
- Crowdfund Insider, 13 August 2019: Critic: DLT for Administering UK Pensions Not a Foregone Conclusion by Cali Haan
- AMBCrypto, 17 August 2019: Will regulators stand united or divided against Facebook’s Libra? by Aakash Athawasya
- Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 2019: From money-laundering to sanctions busting: the real value of cryptocurrency may soon be clear by Chris Zappone
- AMBCrypto, 21 August 2019: Africa could emerge as the battleground between Facebook and China as digital currency race heats up by Jibin George
- Decrypt Media, 21 August 2019: Maximalists can’t meme by Ben Munster
- New York Times, 27 August 2019: Telegram Pushes Ahead With Plans for ‘Gram’ Cryptocurrency by Nathaniel Popper
- CryptoNews, 14 September 2019: Is Stablecoin Business Model Stable Or Is It Endangered? by Simon Chandler
- Decrypt Media, 16 September 2019: Inside Telegram’s secretive TON blockchain network by Robert Stevens
- AMBCrypto, 17 September 2019: Facebook in the crosshairs of regulators once again; this time the authorities’ concern may be warranted by Aakash Athawasya
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 18 September 2019: Blockchain goes extra-terrestrial by Jemima Kelly
- AMBCrypto, 18 September 2019: Cryptocurrencies may offer Iran a way to perfect the ‘art of evading international sanctions’ by Jibin George
- Decrypt Media, 23 September 2019: Binance’s US exchange goes live with seven cryptocurrencies by Robert Stevens
- Decrypt Media, 23 September 2019: Debate: Will Bakkt send Bitcoin’s price skyrocketing? by Robert Stevens
- Decrypt Media, 25 September 2019: How Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators by Robert Stevens
- Decrypt Media, 26 September 2019: Incognito Node promises to earn bitcoin while you sleep by Adriana Hamacher
- Decrypt Media, 1 October 2019: Block.one’s SEC settlement over EOS ICO is “shockingly weak” say critics by Robert Stevens
- AMBCrypto, 2 October 2019: Facebook’s Libra can allow an ‘external overseeing body’ to check the Reserve and quell regulatory concerns by Aakash Athawasya
- The Economist, 3 October 2019: Too dicey: Betting on bitcoin prices may soon be deemed illegal gambling (print edition, 5 October 2019 as “Too dicey”)
- AMBCrypto, 5 October 2019: Facebook could tap cryptocurrency exchanges to build their Libra dreams by Aakash Athawasya
- Crowdfund Insider, 9 October 2019: World Federation of Exchanges Ask UK Regulators Not to Ban Crypto Derivatives by Cali Haan
- Decrypt Media, 14 October 2019: Telegram mulls delaying token sale : report by Ben Munster
- AMBCrypto, 15 October 2019: Facebook’s Libra may not launch in 2020 as Association questions ‘licensing’ by Aakash Athawasya
- Finance Magnates, 18 October 2019: SEC vs. Telegram: Will Gram Tokens Ever Be Distributed? by Rachel McIntosh
- AMBCrypto, 25 October 2019: Bitcoin breaks down into Death Cross as bearish woes continue by Aakash Athawasya
- AMBCrypto, 26 October 2019: China, BitMEX and Bakkt push Bitcoin past $10,000 by Aakash Athawasya
- AMBCrypto, 30 October 2019: Time will tell: EOS — Security or Cryptocurrency? by Aakash Athawasya
- Wealth Professional Canada, 6 November 2019: Is the new ‘Bitcoin Fund’ a triumph for retail investor freedom? by David Kitai
- Bank Info Security, 21 November 2019: Federal Reserve Report Raises Concerns About ‘Stablecoins’ by Akshaya Asokan
- Decrypt Media, 27 November 2019: Why Telegram’s Europol endorsement matters for TON by Adriana Hamacher
- AMBCrypto, 28 November 2019: Bitcoin doesn’t #DropGold, but goes with it by Aakash Athawasya
- Decrypt Media, 12 December 2019: Bitcoin price now at crossroads: Will it go bullish or bearish? by Robert Stevens
- Decrypt Media, 12 December 2019: These Bitcoin skeptics want to kill Wikipedia’s Lightning page by Robert Stevens
- Decrypt Media, 13 December 2019: What the UK General Election means for cryptocurrency in Britain by Robert Stevens
- Finance Brokerage, 13 December 2019: Bitcoin Price Currently at Crossroads
- Crowdfund Insider, 18 December 2019: UK Cryptocurrency Exchange Delisting Ethereum by Cali Haan
- AMBCrypto, 1 January 2020: Bitcoin in 2019 wasn’t hodled or spent; it was ‘traded’ by Aakash Athawasya
- The Time Blawg, 16 January 2020: Is it smart for lawyers to blockchain? by Brian Inkster
- Decrypt Media, 22 January 2020: Do “no-coiners” gate-keep Crypto Wikipedia? by Ben Munster
- The Independent, 28 January 2020: Coronavirus: Claims deadly virus is ‘good for bitcoin’ may be confused by Anthony Cuthbertson
- Decrypt Media, 4 March 2020: Facebook’s Libra pondering a rethink? by Amy Castor
- CryptoNews, 29 March 2020: Can CBDC Help Recover From Coronavirus Recession And Lead To Bitcoin? by Simon Chandler
- Decrypt Media, 29 March 2020: Expert: Judge unlikely to let Telegram distribute Grams outside US by Liam Frost
- Finance Magnates, 4 April 2020: “Blockchains Are…Bad”: David Gerard on Libra, CBDCs, & the Facts of Life by Rachel McIntosh
- Crypto Briefing, 17 April 2020: Why Has Tether Dominated the Stablecoin Space? by Liam Kelly
- Financial Times, 17 April 2020: How Facebook’s Libra went from world changer to just another PayPal by Kiran Stacey and Hannah Murphy
- Finance Magnates, 21 April 2020: Is ‘Libra 2.0’ Any More Appealing to Regulators than the Original? by Rachel McIntosh
- Finance Magnates, 5 May 2020: Bitcoin Post-COVID & Pre-Halvening: 4 Leading Experts Open Up on BTC by Rachel McIntosh
- Finance Magnates, 7 May 2020: Will the Upcoming Halving Increase Bitcoin’s Price? by Rachel McIntosh
- Finance Magnates, 29 May 2020: Calibra’s Rebrand to ‘Novi’: An Effort to Create Distance from Facebook? by Rachel McIntosh
- TechNewsWorld, 9 June 2020: Brave Browser Caught Redirecting URLs for Cash by John P. Mello Jr.
- Decrypt Media, 14 August 2020: How a second wave of coronavirus lockdowns will impact Bitcoin by Will Heasman
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 24 August 2020: Who’s been editing the Ripple CEO’s Wikipedia page? by Jemima Kelly
- LSE Business Review, 14 September 2020: Do we need programmable money? by Martin Walker
- Crypto News, 18 October 2020: Imagine Regulators Shutting Tether Down — What Happens to Bitcoin? by Simon Chandler
- BBC News, 21 October 2020: PayPal allows Bitcoin and crypto spending
- The Times, 24 October 2020: Billionaire Ben Delo’s £5m gift stirs up trouble for Oxford by Ben Ellery
- Current Affairs, vol 5 no 5, Sept/Oct 2020: The Crypto Casino by Andrew Ancheta (print edition, p27–33)
- BBC News, 4 November 2020: Bitcoin: $1bn address with Silk Road links ‘being transferred’ by Cristina Criddle
- Reuters, 5 November 2020: Bitcoin hits highest level since Jan. 2018 amid post-election volatility by Anna Irrera
- Crypto Briefing, 27 November 2020: Facebook to Finally Launch Scaled Back Libra Coin in January by Vishal Chawla and Nivesh Rustgi
- Finance Magnates, 1 December 2020: Will Facebook’s Libra Launch in January? Experts Weigh In by Rachel McIntosh
- BeInCrypto, 29 December 2020: Why Blockchain Won’t ‘Revolutionize’ Healthcare and Education Anytime Soon by Max Krupyshev and Ana Alexandre
- Daily Telegraph, 5 January 2021: Bitcoin’s wild ride to $34,000 fuels fresh warnings of an impending crackdown by Michael Cogley and Matthew Field
- Decrypt Media, 11 January 2021: Crypto Twitter Divided Following Trump’s Social Media Ban by Tim Hakki
- El Economista, 12 January 2021: La “madre de todas las burbujas” que alentó el ‘tether’ deja caídas del 20% by Victor Ventura
- ICAEW, Technology and Financial Services Faculties, 14 January 2021: Don’t bank on bitcoin for payments yet by Billy Bambrough
- BitcoinBlog.de, 14 January 2021: Das Tether-Komplott: FUD oder Fakt? by Christoph Bergmann
- Daily Telegraph, 22 January 2021: The weird world of Bitcoin ‘whales’: The 2,500 people that control 40pc of the market by Matthew Field
- The Sun, 22 January 2021: COIN CONUNDRUM Fears Bitcoin ‘whales’ could trigger crash with just 2,500 people controlling nearly HALF of market (archive)
- Yahoo! News, 23 January 2021: Bitcoin suffers worst week in months amid regulation fears by LaToya Harding
- Crypto News, 7 February 2021: Are GameStop-Style Surges In Crypto Any Different From Old Pumps & Dumps? by Simon Chandler
- BBC News, 10 February 2021: Bitcoin consumes ‘more electricity than Argentina’ by Cristina Criddle
- BBC News, 18 February 2021: Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card
- New Money Review, 19 February 2021: DeFi is centralised after all by Paul Amery
- Byline Times, 12 March 2021: New Currency Kings Emerge in the COVID World by Martin Baker
- Business Insider, 16 March 2021: ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry slams NFTs with a quote warning ‘crypto grifters’ are selling them as ‘magic beans’ by Theron Mohamed
- Independent, 16 March 2021: ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry shares quote slamming NFTs as ‘magic beans’ sold by ‘crypto grifters’ by Graig Graziosi
- Newsy, 18 March 2021: $3.3 Million House For Sale — Bitcoin Accepted
- Artnet, 24 March 2021: Professor Kenny Schachter Is Here to Teach You More About NFTs (and Put the Crypto Critics in Detention) — by Kenny Schachter
- CryptoNews, 27 March 2021: Money Laundering Might Taint NFTs Too, Prepare For Tighter Controls by Simon Chandler
- Gothamist, 5 April 2021: Andrew Yang Wants To Turn NYC Into A Bitcoin Megahub. That Would Be Terrible For Climate Change by Lydia McMullen-Laird
- Investor’s Business Daily, 9 April 2021: Bitcoin Hits Tipping Point After Skyrocketing On Investment Mania by Bill Peters
- ZDNet, 13 April 2021: NDIS sidesteps blockchain in government kitchen sink debt-chasing app by Stilgherrian
- CNet, 13 April 2021: Beyond Bitcoin: Inside the insane world of altcoin cryptocurrencies by Daniel Van Boom
- Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2021: ‘Financial weapon’: Bitcoin becomes another factor in China-US contest by Chris Zappone
- BBC News, 22 April 2021: Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk agree on bitcoin’s green credentials
- ABC News, 23 April 2021: China is on track to unveil a digital currency that it hopes could challenge dollar dominance by Dong Xing and Sean Mantesso
- Yorkshire Post, 24 April 2021: Are NFT’s worth a punt, or is someone else getting rich quick? by David Behrens
- The Athletic, 26 April 2021: HODL! English football’s hidden links to Bitcoin gambling by Joey D’Urso
- Wired, 26 April 2021: The race to replace cash with crypto is hotting up by Margaret Taylor
- Casper Star Tribune, 30 April 2021: Dodson: Mining and Greenpeace can save Wyoming by David Dodson
- Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2021: Ethereum emerges from Bitcoin’s shadow by Matthew Field
- Daily Mail, 13 May 2021: Elon Musk makes screeching bitcoin U-turn: Tesla boss says you can’t buy cars with cryptocurrency sending the price plummeting by Matt Oliver
- Radio Free Asia, 19 May 2021: 中国禁止虚拟货币交易 比特币值应声大跌 (China bans virtual currency trading, Bitcoin’s value plummets)
- Guardian, 26 May 2021: New cryptocurrency Chia blamed for hard drive shortages by Alex Hern
- BBC News, 30 May 2021: Buying a pink NFT cat was a crypto nightmare by Cristina Criddle
- Tech Monitor, 3 June 2021: ‘The apotheosis of ownership’: What is the future of NFTs? by Greg Noone
- Associated Press, 9 June 2011: El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender by Marcos Aleman
- Associated Press, 11 June 2021: At El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a glimpse of crypto economy by Marcos Aleman
- Crypto News, 19 June 2021: The ‘Number Go Up’ Mentality Drives Crypto World As It Matures by Simon Chandler
- Mashable, 25 June 2021: Inside the shady world of influencers promoting cryptocurrency by Matt Binder
- Forbes, 26 June 2021: Inside The Reddit Forum That Wants To See Bitcoin Die by Abram Brown
- BBC News, 15 July 2021: Cambridge data shows Bitcoin mining on the move
- Tech Monitor, 15 July 2021: Crypto’s uncertain environmental future by Greg Noone
- Decrypt Media, 18 July 2021: Bitcoin’s Critics: A Flourishing No-coiner Cottage Industry by Ben Butler
- BBC News, 20 July 2021: EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
- Mashable, 29 July 2021: The strange story of a family that can’t access $6 million in crypto from the Ethereum presale by Matt Binder
- Crypto News, 7 August 2021: Stablecoins Reign Among Top Coins: Why and What It Might Mean by Simon Chander
- Bloomberg, 18 August 2021: From Doge Soldiers to Bitcoinists: A Field Guide to the Crypto Faithful by Christopher Beam
- Bank Info Security, 30 August 2021: Senator Seeks Input on Securing Crypto, Blockchain by Dan Gunderman
- Associated Press, 6 September 2021: Bitcoin brings hopes, doubts for Salvadorans sending money by Gisela Salomon, Marcos Aleman and Claudia Torrens
- Associated Press, 8 September 2021: Early stumble as El Salvador starts Bitcoin as currency by Marcos Aleman
- MarketWatch, 8 September 2021: El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment splits crypto community amid major price decline by Chris Matthews
- BBC News, 16 September 2021: OpenSea admits insider trading of NFTs it promoted
- BBC News, 23 September 2021: What are NFTs and why are some worth millions?
- New Money Review, 24 September 2021: Twitter launches bitcoin tipping by Paul Amery
- NBC News, 25 September 2021: Bitcoin miners align with fossil fuel firms, alarming environmentalists by Olivia Solon
- CryptoNews, 10 October 2021: How Bitcoin & Crypto Might Help Ease Wealth Inequality (Without Miracles) by Simon Chandler
- Euronews, 17 November 2021: Bitcoin and other cryptos have slumped after record highs. Is market manipulation the reason why? by Pascale Davies
- ZDNet, 28 November 2021: Volcano-powered Bitcoin City could be Bond villainy or the state of play in 2021 by Chris Duckett
- Financial Times, 30 November 2021: What influences cryptocurrency values? by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
- Euronews, 2 December 2021: Is the future of football financing in cryptocurrency?
- Slate, 9 December 2021: Jimmy Wales Is Auctioning the “Birth of Wikipedia” as an NFT by Stephen Harrison
- SPLC Hatewatch, 9 December 2021: How Cryptocurrency Revolutionized the White Supremacist Movement by Michael Edison Hayden and Megan Squire
- The Register, 15 December 2021: Web3: The next generation of the web is here… apparently by Liam Proven
- Gov Info Security, 20 December 2021: Treasury Official Urges Congress to Regulate Stablecoins by Dan Gunderman
- New York Post, 20 December 2021: Mystery of crypto CEO who died — or did he? — taking $250 million with him by Michael Kaplan
- Evening Standard, 22 December 2021: Cryptocurrencies and fan tokens: the key questions by Martyn Landi
- DeZeen, 24 December 2021: Will the extraordinary rise of NFTs continue in 2022? by Alice Finney
- BBC News, 31 December 2021: Year in tech: The stories making headlines in 2021 by Jane Wakefield
- BBC News, 6 January 2022: NFT marketplace OpenSea valued at more than $13bn
- Business Insider, 7 January 2022: Solana is blockchain’s sleeping giant. Here’s why its market cap has gone up more than 62,000% in the past year and experts predict it may be the bitcoin killer by Chris Stokel-Walker
- The Interpreter, 11 January 2022: Kip-to-currency? by Helen Clark
- Guardian, 14 January 2022: Dirty cash and crypto: how the booming cryptocurrency market is open to exploitation by Ben Butler
- E & E News, 18 January 2022: EPA tackles coal-to-crypto industry trend by Jael Holzman
- CryptoVantage, 20 January 2022: Why is the Supply of USDC and Tether Going Up in a Crypto Bear Market? by Simon Chandler
- New York Post, 5 February 2022: How retired Tom Brady could become NFL’s first billionaire player by Gavin Newsham and Michael Kaplan
- Wall Street Journal, 8 February 2022: When You Marry NFTs and Emojis, You Get a Yat by Rachel Wolfe
- Press Association, 26 January 2022: What is an NFT? The latest digital investment boom explained by Jamie Harris
- Financial Times, 12 February 2022: New York crypto couple implicated in ‘heist of the century’ by Madison Darbyshire
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