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From tech legends to furries to the editors of Wikipedia, everyone’s lining up to dunk on crypto. Are we the bad guys?Of all the digital communities one might expect to come out against crypto, the furries were not high on my list. Yet their grievances about web3 and

2021 may have served up its fair share of crap, but for crypto it was the year we finally came of age.Aside from professional epidemiologists and the makers of Squid Game, it’s hard to believe that anyone has had as insane and overwhelming a year as the cryptocurrency

Omicron is here, inflation is spiking and markets all over the world are struggling. Shouldn’t this be crypto’s moment?When the WHO decided to name the latest coronavirus variant of concern, ‘Omicron’ (skipping ‘xi’, the actual next letter in the Greek alphabet), I wonder if they were like,

For the first time, people are saying the unsayable: Ethereum may be beyond saving. Is it actually true?The fact that Ethereum is painfully slow and cripplingly expensive to use is no great secret. Spending more in gas fees than you did on an actual transaction has become a shared

Australia’s largest bank is about to start selling crypto. Did you ever think you’d see the day? Perhaps I underestimate Australia. Don’t get me wrong: it’s a pretty great country, all things considered. But you couldn’t accuse us of brimming with vision, especially when it

The Bitcoin ETF pumped BTC to all-time highs. Is the next stop six figures?It’s worth thinking about everything that’s happened since Bitcoin blasted its way through US$20k in December last year. The 2020 surge was driven by pandemic-fuelled inflation fears, the rise of meme trading and

After eight years the first Bitcoin ETF could almost be here. Will it be everything we’ve been waiting for?You gotta hand it to the Winklevii: they were ahead of the curve. Through their freshly minted Gemini exchange, Tyler and Cameron applied for the very first Bitcoin ETF all

Crypto has been growing for a decade and we’re finally starting to see what it’s all about: building the next internet. By any metric you might choose to measure, the five companies that define technology in 2021 – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon – are unfathomably colossal. They represent five

In crypto land, rumour, innuendo and straight up hoaxes fill the news cycle – and their only purpose is to take your hard earned coins.Early on Tuesday morning, Australia time, Walmart, a company with an annual revenue of US$550 billion, put out a press release announcing that it would

According to Zuck, the metaverse is coming. And crypto wants to be the gateway drug.A month ago, Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his nutrient-replenishment coffin to conduct a typically dead-eyed tour through the Facebook-enabled dystopia he wishes we were all trapped in. This time around he was explaining how Facebook

Ethereum has flipped Bitcoin in almost every metric that matters. Is market cap next?Last week Coinbase revealed its second quarter earnings, and its first set of earnings as a bona fide NASDAQ-listed company. While there were a lot of impressive figures being reeled off – US$462 billion in transaction

From Binance to BlockFi, from Britain to the banks, regulators are finally moving on crypto. Is that a good thing?Regulation has always been coming for crypto. Together with Chinese Bitcoin bans and Tether FUD, regulation forms the holy trinity of the crypto bad news cycle. And like those other

China’s been “banning” Bitcoin for years. But this time they’ve actually done it – and the consequences are profound.For most of its history, Bitcoin has been a Chinese venture in all but name. Despite the OG crypto’s talk about decentralisation and being the digital era’s take-all-comers

While El Salvador steals the spotlight, Bitcoin has quietly been finalising its first proper upgrade in four years.Yeah, yeah. I get it. The President of El Salvador declaring that not only is bitcoin now legal tender in his country but that people should move there to mine crypto in

Elon shone a spotlight on bitcoin’s prodigious energy use. Is it possible to be a carbon conscious crypto investor?Major market moves are always so painfully obvious in retrospect. The price of bitcoin surged almost 600% in six months. Alts did that and a whole lot more. Absolute dumpster

Yeesh. That was unpleasant. Three takeaways from a night crypto won’t soon forget.Well, it dang gone and happened again. Much like March last year, an insistent correction became a full-blown catastrophe as the crypto world’s addiction to leverage led to the kind of sell-off you’d typically

One Ether now costs more than US$3000. Did you ever think you’d see the day?You gotta hand it to the crypto markets: in some ways they’re comically predictable. A month ago, Ethereum was everyone’s favourite whipping boy, a bloated, expensive under-achiever that couldn’t even

Lushsux is Australian street art royalty. One of the country’s most prolific street artists and founder of the meme art movement, his work is both instantly recognisable and bitingly funny, taking the most familiar parts of internet culture, giving them an otherworldly gloss and pasting them all over Melbourne’

If there was any doubt in your mind, Coinbase listing on the NASDAQ with a US$85 billion valuation should put them firmly to bed.At around 3am AEST this morning (after some inexplicable delays), shares in US cryptocurrency behemoth Coinbase started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The

If blockchain wants to take over the world, it’s going to have to get a lot faster. We’re adding some of the tokens trying to make it happen. With news this week that Ethereum’s latest scaling solution – the unfortunately named Optimism – has been delayed until July, focus

What the latest crypto craze can tell us about the good, the bad and the weird of the blockchain world.Chances are that unless you’re being kept in some sort of subterranean dungeon and/or have been pronounced clinically dead, you’ve read something about NFTs over the last

The prices are low and the panic is high. Is this the time to sell? If you’ve been around crypto for longer than a couple of months, you’re probably familiar with the feelings that come with your average market-wide correction. Euphoria fizzling away as that first red candle