May 11, 2024
Crypto

Crypto Underregulated Around Much of the World

As of last June, most of the world’s governments hadn’t begun regulating the cryptocurrency sector. That’s according to a new report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), whose president told CoinDesk Thursday (March 28) that this low level of response — with under 30% of the world’s jurisdictions regulating crypto — requires a “call to

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Crypto

Barry Silbert Is the Crypto World’s New Villain

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty “I had no idea who Barry Silbert was or anything until after November 16, 2022,” Eric Asquith told me. That date was when he was pretty sure he had lost his family’s savings of $1,052,000. Asquith took what he thought was the sober route into crypto. He didn’t buy bitcoin or

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