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2026 28

  1. It’s always North Korea
  2. North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance
  3. On Meidas Defense: cryptocurrency, sanctions, and Trump quid pro quo
  4. Issue 111 – Back the winners
  5. Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
  6. The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
  7. Issue 109 – Reg Crypto
  8. Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce
  9. Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight
  10. Issue 107 – An unserious offer
  11. Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure
  12. Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present
  13. Second Circuit rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal
  14. End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics
  15. I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics
  16. Issue 105 – The new boogeyman
  17. President Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin is preparing to launch a “Coin Club” membership scheme
  18. No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried
  19. Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial
  20. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s old firm pumps $10 million into super PAC led by Tether executive
  21. Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters
  22. Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court
  23. Issue 102 – The public will pay
  24. Issue 101 – Bought and paid for
  25. Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms
  26. Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for
  27. Issue 99 – They’ve bought themselves a Congress
  28. The year of technoligarchy

2025 46

  1. Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation
  2. Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam
  3. Issue 97 – This is hardship
  4. Issue 96 – Redefining solvency
  5. Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
  6. Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff
  7. Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
  8. Issue 94 – Backdoor deals
  9. Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation
  10. Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.
  11. Issue 92 – The scam of all scams
  12. Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise
  13. Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain
  14. As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story
  15. Issue 90 – Crime szn bro
  16. Curate your own newspaper with RSS
  17. The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution
  18. Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat
  19. Issue 88 – The stockchain
  20. Issue 87 – SO ORDERED
  21. Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase
  22. It matters. I care.
  23. Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens
  24. UPDATED: Trump to launch branded crypto trading application
  25. OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
  26. Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents
  27. Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House
  28. Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests
  29. Issue 82 – E-moluments
  30. Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
  31. Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal
  32. Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry
  33. Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus
  34. “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
  35. Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
  36. Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin
  37. Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there
  38. Transcript of leaked call with Meteora’s Ben Chow
  39. The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen
  40. Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation
  41. Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters
  42. Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous
  43. No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
  44. Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
  45. Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
  46. Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

2024 51

  1. Not just one bad apple: FTX's practices were business as usual in crypto
  2. Issue 72 – A seat at the table
  3. Businessweek: Crypto Got What It Wanted in November’s Election. Now What?
  4. Issue 71 – (Crypto) banks are not your friends
  5. Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending
  6. Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America
  7. Wind the clock
  8. Issue 69 – Nice
  9. I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
  10. Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison
  11. Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda
  12. Fighting for our web
  13. Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?
  14. POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
  15. Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin
  16. Issue 66 – Pretensions to relevance
  17. Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
  18. Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco
  19. Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”?
  20. Issue 64 – Pointing its arsenal at our friends
  21. Issue 63 – RobConf 2024
  22. Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation
  23. When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue?
  24. Issue 62 – Grassroots
  25. Follow the Crypto
  26. Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy
  27. Issue 60 – Raging in favor of the machine
  28. Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly
  29. Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $135 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started
  30. Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
  31. Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum
  32. Issue 57 - I take deep breath and I get real high
  33. We can have a different web
  34. Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me?
  35. AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
  36. Issue 55 – Halving a bad time
  37. "The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps
  38. Issue 54 – Cases continue
  39. 25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried
  40. Sam Bankman-Fried wants only six years for his "victimless" crime
  41. Issue 53 – Choose rich
  42. Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability
  43. Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes
  44. Issue 51 – It's quiet... too quiet
  45. We need to talk about digital ownership
  46. Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
  47. Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts
  48. Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x"
  49. Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
  50. Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon
  51. Citation Needed has a new home

2023 39

  1. The stones left unturned in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
  2. Issue 43 – Laser eyes
  3. Sam Bankman-Fried will testify, and I'll be there
  4. Issue 42 – To the moon
  5. Issue 41 – This is not the Binance you're looking for
  6. Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
  7. Issue 40 – Extorted for my lambo
  8. Issue 39 – Partners in crime (of the criminal sort)
  9. Issue 38 – The Wallet Event
  10. Issue 37 – Things Sam is freaking out about
  11. Issue 36 – Sam Bankman-Jailed
  12. Issue 35 – Pondering my orb
  13. Issue 34 – The issue is you got hacked by North Korea
  14. Issue 33 – Can I cross border with crypto?
  15. Issue 32 – I write to inform you the games are over.
  16. Issue 31 – FTX spaghetti
  17. Issue 30 – Sturdy Finance isn't, Atlantis Loans sinks
  18. Issue 29 – SEC showdown
  19. Issue 28 – Force majeure
  20. Issue 27 – Buzzword bingo
  21. Narrative over numbers: Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report
  22. Issue 26 – Fully prepared to litigate
  23. Issue 25 – Taking time to be with my remaining apes
  24. Issue 24 – We sometimes find $50m of assets lying around that we lost track of; such is life.
  25. Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service
  26. Issue 23 – Here for crime
  27. Issue 22 – Conferences and collapses
  28. The venture capitalist's dilemma
  29. Issue 21 – Other-than-temporary impairments make banks less than well-capitalized
  30. The Oasis "counter-hack" and the centralization of defi
  31. I asked Popehat: Why isn't SBF in jail?
  32. Issue 20 – These things happen
  33. Issue 19 – Down with the crypto banks
  34. The Celsius examiner's report: a picture of fraud and incompetence
  35. Issue 18 – Chief Ponzi Officer
  36. The FTX subpoenas
  37. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust: the free money machine that went into reverse
  38. Issue 17 – Posting through it
  39. Issue 16 – Bahamian brouhaha

2022 3

  1. Issue 11 – A different sort of animal
  2. Issue 5 – For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons
  3. Issue 0 – Introduction

Undated 54

  1. In 2022 web3 went just great
  2. Issue 14 ftx friends flip on fellow
  3. Ftx hearing senate edition
  4. The charges against sam bankman fried
  5. Issue 12 destablecoins destabilize
  6. The ftx collapse the latest revelations
  7. Ftx explainer
  8. Ftx analysis
  9. Issue 9
  10. Issue 8 french fry fiascos
  11. Issue 6
  12. Issue 4
  13. Issue 2
  14. Issue 15 the reverse midas touch
  15. Issue 13 dont threaten me with a
  16. Issue 10 speedrunning the evolution
  17. Issue 7
  18. Issue 3
  19. Issue 1
  20. Issue 44 four
  21. Issue 45 im the director now
  22. Video binance
  23. Issue 46 checkmate crypto
  24. Issue 47 residual garbage
  25. Sam bankman fried is not a child
  26. Effective obfuscation
  27. Substackers against nazis
  28. New york times cryptos fragile foundations
  29. Sam bankman fried guilty on all charges
  30. The ftx trial days 1516 sam bankman
  31. The ftx trial day fourteen
  32. The ftx trial day thirteen sam bankman
  33. Video report sam bankman fried began
  34. The ftx trial day twelve
  35. The ftx trial day eleven
  36. The ftx trial day ten heinously criminal
  37. The ftx trial day nine nishad singh
  38. Ftx trial day eight defrauding lenders
  39. Ftx trial day seven sam i guess
  40. The ftx trial day six
  41. Sam bankman fried for president
  42. The fraud was in the code
  43. Ftx defrauded its customers says
  44. Jury selected in sam bankman fried
  45. A preview of the sam bankman fried
  46. News flash 95 of nfts have always
  47. Sam bankman frieds jail conditions
  48. Worldcoin a solution in search of
  49. Xrp schrodingers security
  50. But the sec let us go public and
  51. Sec v binance we are operating as
  52. No bitcoin isnt pumping because its
  53. Everything sam bankman fried is doing
  54. A shift to substack