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Amy Castor – Independent JournalistI'm retired! As such, this site is no longer active. My co-writer David Gerard continues to post on Pivot to AI, a site that we launched together in June 2024. He does a great job. Send him money! As a journalist, my stories have appeared in Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Artnet News, MIT Technology Review,…Amy Castor – Independent Journalist Primary Menu Amy Castor Independent Journalist About Me Selected Clips Blog Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Subscribe Join 23.1K other subscribers Twitter UpdatesTweets by ahcastorRecent Comments Anonymous on Smear campaigns and false narr…Proton Mail goes AI,… on News: Coinbase Q1 earnings, Si…Stephen Farrugia on Crypto is going: Coinbase sues…Anonymous on Silvergate settles with SEC, D…Amy Castor on Crypto is going: Coinbase sues… Skip to content Amy Castor About Me I’m retired! As such, this site is no longer active. My co-writer David Gerard continues to post on Pivot to AI, a site that we launched together in June 2024. He does a great job. Send him money! As a journalist, my stories have appeared in Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Artnet News, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, and Modern Consensus. Among the hundreds of stories I’ve written on crypto, I’ve picked a few of my favorites and posted them here. (If you are looking for my QuadrigaCX timeline, it’s here.) I also have a crypto news blog. Here’s a list of posts by month and year: August 2024 Tether and Northern Data. Part III: the whistleblowers July 2024 Video Q&A for patrons — Thursday, August 8, 16:00 UTC! Tether and Northern Data. Part II: the partnership Smear campaigns and false narratives: how the crypto lobby seeks to influence US politics — by Jake Donoghue Tether and Northern Data. Part 1: the miner’s tale June 2024 Silvergate settles with SEC, DFPI, and Federal Reserve over FTX money laundering SEC sues Consensys over Metamask Swaps and Staking Crypto is going: Coinbase sues FDIC and SEC under FOIA, Epoch Times crypto money laundering, Consumers’ Research vs Tether, FTX/Salame, Terra settles with SEC May 2024 Crypto is going back: Ethereum front-runner charged, Coinbase looking to re-enact 2022 crash, Uniswap responds to SEC, the not-Telegram Open Network, Wyoming Tether and sanctions: what’s coming for Paolo’s beautiful launderette Robinhood Crypto receives an SEC Wells notice for securities violations Coinbase Q1 2024 earnings: number go up, with a bit of juicing Regulatory clarity: Roger Ver tax charges, CZ sentenced, Avi Eisenberg convicted and charged again, crypto mixers go down April 2024 Consensys gets a Wells notice over MetaMask Swaps and Staking Christopher Harborne defamation suit: WSJ motion to dismiss, Bitfinex/Tether, Bank of America, Sackville Bank Crypto is going sideways: Avi Eisenberg trial begins, Uniswap gets a Wells notice, Bitfinex Securities in El Salvador Crypto is going great: KuCoin busted, how Kickstarter shot itself in the foot with blockchain, Tether goes AI March 2024 Tether shareholder Christopher Harborne’s suit against the Wall Street Journal and threats to blogs Bitcoin goes up, so it must come down. What goes into the price of BTC? Everybody hates Binance: Two staff held in Nigeria; finding the cash for $4.3b in US fines Tether, FTX, and Deltec Bank: MONEY TIME Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?” Bitcoin mining: Riot Platforms’ 10-K is full of tentacles February 2024 Crypto collapse: Genesis vs. DCG, Celsius payouts failing, Terra-Luna extraditions, what 3AC did next, Craig Wright The ‘halvening’ is coming — what this means for bitcoin Crypto collapse: FTX is liquidating and getting an examiner, Tether’s Q4 attestation, more ETFs coming January 2024 Amy and David answer your questions — bitcoin mining, ETH staking, FTX, tether, and more!  Crypto collapse: SEC takes on Terraform and Coinbase, ETF fallout continues, Tether is for crime You won’t believe the 21 million reasons bitcoin ETFs are dumb as heck and super-risky! Oh wait, of course you will SEC approves bitcoin spot ETFs — what this means for crypto Amy and David answer your questions on crypto! (Part 1) December 2023 Amy and David’s sure-fire* analyst predictions on crypto for 2024! Crypto collapse: Mt Gox payouts, Tether hooks up the feds, SEC says no to Coinbase, crypto media mergers Bitcoin ETFs — coming soon! But in cash only Société Générale’s useless euro stablecoin: when bank blockchain units go feral Bitcoin goes up! Can 5 billion unbacked tethers kickstart a fresh crypto bubble? Crypto collapse: SEC brings regulatory clarity to Kraken and Celsius, stablecoins for the UK, crypto money laundering November 2023 Binance gets hit with crypto’s worst possible fate: compliance Pivot to AI: Microsoft looks into taking over Torment Nexus development Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script Coinbase Q3 earnings: Regulatory clarity is all we need. And a miracle or two Crypto collapse: Bankman-Fried trial draws to a close, SafeMoon arrested, fourth US bank failure was crypto October 2023 New York vs DCG/Genesis and Gemini: Kids, kids, you’re both ugly The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried Texans versus bitcoin: Jackie Sawicky and the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining September 2023 Crypto collapse: Fortress custody hack, Binance stonewalls SEC, FTX to dump its crypto, Genesis sues DCG, New York restricts crypto listings Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain Crypto collapse: Tether’s new bank Britannia, Binance woes, nobody uses PayPal’s stablecoin, Avi Eisenberg is not getting his phones back August 2023 CoinDesk retracts stories about sponsors, makes implausible excuses Crypto collapse: Tornado Cash arrests, Federal Reserve shuts down Farmington Bank, Prime Trust played Terra-Luna Crypto collapse: Sam Bankman-Fried goes to jail, SEC appeals Ripple ruling, Prime Trust bankrupt, the tangled tale of TrueUSD and Tron Crypto collapse: The Fed takes on crypto banks, Coinbase earnings call is bad, FTX 2: Ex Harder Crypto collapse: Terra judge repudiates Ripple finding, Razzlekhan cops a plea, Binance’s FDUSD stablecoin, CoinDesk sold, smart contracts still stupid July 2023 John Jay Ray sues FTX inner circle for $1 billion, prosecutors want Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked Stalking a charity: Why the FBI raided Kraken founder Jesse Powell’s home Crypto collapse: Alex Mashinsky of Celsius arrested, Ripple’s bizarre XRP win, Gemini sues Genesis, Gisele Bündchen knew nothing! Crypto collapse: Venture capital goes home, Coinbase, Tether backing, FTX sues Hollywood VCs, 3AC on the beach Crypto collapse: TrueUSD in trouble, Prime Trust and Banq go down, Europe hates Binance, BlockFi, Terra-Luna, Twitter is just resting June 2023 FTX: John Jay Ray files second interim report, sues Daniel Friedberg SEC sues Binance, part 3: VIPs on VPNs, wash trading, the Binance US equity sale, who is Guangying Chen? SEC sues Binance, part 2: asset freeze, securities, Coley and Brooks, Gensler’s alleged COI SEC sues Binance, part 1: the complaint, Binance US asset freeze, Tai Chi plan, sock puppet CEOs, weird cash flows The SEC sues Coinbase. It’s on. Reggie Fowler, Bitfinex/Tether money mule, sentenced to 6 years in prison  Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI May 2023 Crypto collapse: Fahrenheit buys Celsius, DCG may be broke, Hong Kong cracks down, Binance commingling, how Bitfinex was hacked Crypto collapse: Tether makes up some numbers, UK MPs call crypto gambling, more regulatory clarity, news from Chapter 11 Crypto collapse: Bittrex files chapter 11, Binance loses market makers, FTX gets a tax bill, bitcoin gets apes Crypto collapse: One year since Terra-Luna, New York goes after crypto, Coinbase launches offshore casino, Central African Republic abandons bitcoin April 2023 Crypto collapse: Coinbase rattles sabres at the SEC, Voyager sale collapses, Terra-Luna, Binance Crypto collapse: Reggie Fowler sentencing delayed, SEC charges Bittrex, Coinbase looks to leave the US, Scaramucci and FTX, Bitfinex, Ripple Crypto collapse: Treasury comes after DeFi, SEC comes after crypto exchanges, stablecoin bill, FTX first interim report So much for Wyoming blockchain regulatory capture — the Fed blocks Custodia Bank Crypto collapse: No cashing out from Binance US, Catherine Coley lawyers up, Voyager-Binance deal on hold, Celsius March 2023 The Block fires a third of staff — Larry Cermak is CEO, Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy joins board Crypto collapse: Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to new charges, Binance fallout, SEC sues exchange over crypto securities, how Signature died CFTC cracks CZ’s phone, sues Binance — what’s a little terrorist financing between friends Do Kwon arrested, White House hates crypto, Coinbase Wells notice, SEC charges Justin Sun, Signature sold, FTX Bahamas party fund returns  Crypto collapse: The Great Unbanking continues, Bitcoin pumps, FTX, Voyager, Tether Crypto collapse: Signature Bank blows up, US crypto frantically looks for banking Crypto collapse: Silicon Valley Bank falls and takes out USDC, New York calls ETH a security Crypto collapse: Good night Silvergate Bank, unbanking crypto exchanges, Voyager sale to Binance proceeding Crypto collapse: Silvergate implosion continues, Signature Bank, Tether lied to banks, Voyager, Celsius Silvergate, banker to the crypto world, is going down February 2023 MIT Tech Review: Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Why can’t Bitcoin? Crypto collapse: New Sam Bankman-Fried charges, New York targets CoinEx, Coinbase losses, Voyager, Celsius Crypto collapse: SEC tightening crypto custody rules, why you can’t cash out your BUSD, Binance and Catherine Coley, SEC charges Terra-Luna Crypto collapse: Binance USD shut down, Celsius insiders sued, Paxos, Voyager, FTX Crypto collapse: Unbanking crypto, Genesis offers DCG shares to creditors, Binance suspends US dollar transactions, SEC goes after staking Crypto collapse: Crypto.com’s shadow bank Transactive, US banks and crypto, Binance not so good with actual money Celsius Network: Final report from the examiner — lies, incompetence and Ponzi schemes January 2023 Crypto collapse: FTX family subpoenas, SBF witness tampering, Celsius bids revealed, more crypto banking woes Crypto collapse: US banks leave crypto, how Genesis kept Gemini hanging on, FTX, Binance, Nexo Crypto collapse: Genesis bankrupt, CoinDesk for sale, Bankman-Fried attacks FTX lawyers, Bitzlato busted Foreign Policy: The Crypto Dominoes Are Still Falling Crypto collapse: Bitcoin goes up, Nexo charged, GBTC still wants to be an ETF, crypto exchanges struggle, FTX, Voyager SEC sues Genesis and Gemini, Genesis owes $3 billion to creditors Crypto collapse: DCG’s check kiting comes home to roost, Nexo raided, Voyager sale to Binance progresses, unbanking the banked Crypto collapse: DCG’s problem is Grayscale, FTX Bahamas agreement, DeFi trading arrest, Silvergate Bank, Huobi, Binance Crypto collapse: Gemini vs DCG, New York charges Mashinsky in Celsius, Voyager sale troubles, Silvergate troubles, Wintermute FTX Bahamas vs. John Jay Ray, Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty, DoJ seizes FTX assets December 2022 Your 100%* reliable guide to the future of crypto in 2023! FTX updates: How Sam Bankman-Fried got bail, and more FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried out on bail, Ellison and Wang cop pleas Crypto collapse: Binance is not so fine, FTX Delaware vs FTX Bahamas, Celsius, Voyager, Gemini, Tether Crypto collapse: Regulatory altruism at FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried arrested Celsius hearing, December 8: Selling GK8 to Galaxy Digital Celsius hearing, December 7: Custody and Withhold accounts, and a partial ruling Celsius hearings, December 5: Whose stablecoins are these? KERP bonuses, new deadline for restructuring plan Crypto collapse: FTX headed for examiner, Bahamas crypto shenanigans Crypto collapse: BlockFi even deader, crypto miners going broke, Sam will not shut up, Binance and Tether are fine November 2022 Crypto collapse: FTX first-day hearing, Genesis screws DCG, Silvergate Bank Al Jazeera: FTX meltdown threatens to end ‘Wild West’ era for crypto Declaration of John Jay Ray — FTX is worse than Enron Crypto.com’s bad weekend — crypto exchanges are shaky FTX files for bankruptcy, and the fallout begins. Who’s next? Crypto collapse: J. Pierpont Moneygone — FTX rekt, bought by Binance Celsius bankruptcy hearing November 1, 2022: stablecoins, KERPs and Ponzis October 2022 Crypto collapse: Bitcoin stagnant, selling Celsius and Voyager, how 3AC died Celsius Network bankruptcy hearing, Thursday 20 October 2022 Crypto collapse: 40 states chasing Celsius for possible securities fraud; Texas chasing Voyager and FTX for possible securities fraud When Wells notice? Yuga Labs, the SEC is coming for you Crypto collapse: Celsius reveals its creditor list, 3AC NFTs, Terra-Luna, Voyager The SEC busts Kim Kardashian over EthereumMax, pour encourager les autres Crypto collapse: States bust Nexo, Terra’s Do Kwon on the run, Celsius CEO resigns, FTX buying Voyager and eyeing Celsius, ETH miners screwed September 2022 Crypto collapse: Celsius, Voyager, SkyBridge — the liabilities are real, the assets are fake Reggie Fowler, Bitfinex/Tether’s US money man, seeks 6-month sentencing delay Crypto collapse: States bust Nexo, Terra’s Do Kwon on the run, Celsius CEO resigns, FTX buying Voyager and eyeing Celsius, ETH miners screwed August 2022 Crypto collapse: 3AC yacht ‘Much Wow’ back on the market, Celsius maybe-Ponzi, Voyager pays off the boys, Hodlnaut Celsius second bankruptcy hearing — court approves setting more customer funds on fire Bankrupt Voyager Digital’s search for a buyer — notes from the first committee town hall Crypto collapse: Coinbase’s billion-dollar bloodbath, Hodlnaut goes down, Celsius, Voyager, 3AC Bitcoin mining in the crypto crash — the mining companies’ creative accounting Crypto collapse: 3AC’s Grayscale two-step — and where in the world are Zhu and Davies? July 2022 Crypto collapse: Terra Luna, 3AC’s Singapore liquidation, Celsius, Voyager  Crypto collapse: Celsius’ real liabilities and fake assets, Voyager still bankrupt, 3AC owns CryptoDickButt #1462 Crypto collapse: 3AC, Voyager, Celsius, and other DeFi casualties Crypto skeptics step up lobbying efforts with their first conference Who had Voyager Digital next in the DeFi dead pool? June 2022 Crypto collapse latest: the DeFi dead and dying list CoinFLEX gets Roger Verified — the mystery of the missing Bitcoin Cash CBC Radio interview: Could crypto investments become virtually worthless? How 2020 set the stage for the 2021 bitcoin bubble ‘10 NFTs That Were Sold at a Substantial Loss,’ and two other stories for Artnet  Crypto collapse latest: the contagion spreads The tale of a whale who took Solend’s money Bitcoin fell below $20,000 — and why it has further to go Scam Economy podcast: Crypto Jenga: Celsius and the Latest Crypto Crash The early history of NFTs, part 4 — Game sprites on the blockchain: CryptoPunks The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing  — a quick map of where we are and what’s ahead Celsius goes Fahrenheit 451, and number goes down The Week in Art Podcast: ‘Crypto Crash: What Now for NFTs?’ No, a UK judge didn’t actually rule that NFTs are property Initial Game Offerings: a failed Initial Grifting Opportunity The early history of NFTs, part 3: Curio Cards  Coinbase freezes hiring, rescinds job offers: ‘Coinbase ghosted me’ Former OpenSea executive Nate Chastain arrested for insider trading of NFTs May 2022 Early history of NFTs, part 2: Monegraph, Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes Kara Swisher promotes crypto for your retirement, compares it to early internet New QuadrigaCX documentary: ‘The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bitcoin Millionaire’ A16z’s ‘State of Crypto’ report: A rehash of bad crypto market pitches The NFT market hasn’t crashed — it was never not crashed Why is bitcoin dropping in price? NFT news: BAYC breaks Ethereum, OpenSea accepts APE, NFTs are like Papyrus April 2022 Yuga Lab’s Otherside land sale turns into a giant gas war GBTC investors are spamming the SEC Bored Ape Yacht Club: Unanswered Questions After a guilty plea, Reggie Fowler faces 90 years in prison Reggie Fowler, Bitfinex/Tether’s US money man, to plead guilty Would you like fries with your Mutant Ape? Welcome to Grayscale’s Hotel California Cash App’s dangerous new feature — bet your paycheck on bitcoin The Art Angle: ‘The Whole Bored Ape Yacht Club Phenomenon, Explained’ News: Axie Infinity hacked, Germany takes down Hydra, SEC rejects Cathie Wood’s spot bitcoin ETF application March 2022 Axie-Ronin hackers and the crypto laundromat — will they succeed in cleaning 174,000 ETH? The Gorilla In the Room: Yuga Labs investors pretend to care about the planet. They don’t. News: Yuga Labs goes APE, Meebits insider trading, ConsenSys raises another $450M to focus on Web3 buzzword Podcast: I was interviewed by Alan Keane for ‘Artist’s Well.’ We talked about NFTs Bored Ape Yacht Club launches Apecoin. It looks like an unregistered penny stock offering Artnet News: ‘The Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club Want to Become the Amazon of the NFT Space. Can They Pull It Off?’ My first story in MIT Tech Review and added ramblings on Web3 and Ethereum’s Beacon Chain February 2022 News: DoJ finds Bitfinex’s stolen BTC, BlockFi fined $100M, Forbes sells out to Binance, Crypto Super Bowl, NFTs NEWS: Wormhole hit by exploit, BAYC and its tangled celebrity web, HitPiece’s dirty dealings  January 2022 News: Chaos in Wonderland, celebs shilling Bored Apes, how VCs get rich on Web3 QuadrigaCX cofounder Michael Patryn resurfaces — as 0xSifu, treasury manager of Wonderland  News: Jennifer Robertson speaks (QuadrigaCX), BTC tumbles, Crypto.com hacked, SEC shoots down another Bitcoin ETF News: Signal goes worldwide with payments, IRS sets sights on NFTs, Bukele’s bad bets on BTC News: ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ streaming in US, Kazakhstan switches off the internet, volcano bonds, 6-hour rug pull  Crypto predictions for 2022: A bitcoin crash is coming — eventually. Regulators will kill stablecoins, soon NFTs December 2021 Review: ‘Bitcoin Widow,’ by Jennifer Robertson (QuadrigaCX) News: Craig Wright loses $100M, Kickstarter goes blockchain, Neo-Nazis get rich on Bitcoin August 2021 Poloniex gets busted by SEC for $10M, and Circle pays — again Fluffy Pony and the irresistible cookie jar July 2021 News: EU to make BTC traceable, Circle’s stab at transparency, DoJ probes Tether for bank fraud Podcast: ‘Target Letter, Tether’ (Amy Castor and David Gerard) The DoJ’s criminal probe into Tether — What we know News: Regulators zero in on stablecoins, El Salvador’s colón-dollar, Tether printer remains paused Binance: Italy, Lithuania, Hong Kong, all issue warnings; Brazil director quits  Binance: Fiat off-ramps keep closing, reports of frozen funds, what happened to Catherine Coley? What’s backing Circle’s 25B USDC? Why may never know Reggie Fowler, man at the center of Tether’s missing funds, ready for trial News: Tether printer on hold, China’s crypto crackdown, the world hates Binance, El Salvador’s Chivo wallet RSA Conference goes full blockchain, for a moment Binance: A crypto exchange running out of places to hide Notes on NFTs, the high-art trade, and money laundering June 2021 Michael Peterson, El Salvador, and Bitcoin Beach El Salvador’s bitcoin plan: take your USD and turn them into worthless tethers May 2021 Rehost: A day in the life of Stuart Hoegner, General Counsel for Tether News: Tether—now 3% backed, Binance under investigation, Bitfinex shareholder charged, fickle Elon Musk Tether’s first breakdown of reserves consists of two silly pie charts April 2021 News: Tether surpasses 50B, Coinbase lists USDT, reported $2B crypto scam in Turkey Coinbase lists tether, the world’s dodgiest stablecoin News: Coinbase Q1 earnings, Signal integrates MobileCoin, GBTC premium in the toilet, Reggie Fowler’s new lawyer Signal adopts MobileCoin, a crypto project linked to its own creator Moxie Marlinspike News: Coinbase set to go public, Tether releases meaningless attestation, are NFT sales slipping?  March 2021 News: I’m writing a book, people are minting NFTs for the lulz, Chuck Tingle calls NFTs a ‘scoundrel plot’ BitClout’s social media experiment is one bad idea on top of another News: Metakovan unmasks himself, FATF goes after DeFi and NFTs, Coinbase pays CFTC $6.5M over wash trades WTF is an NFT? Here’s a rundown of the basics Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme NYAG to crypto companies: ‘Play by the rules or we will shut you down’ February 2021 News: NY gives Tether the boot, Tether leaks, Coinbase financials, MoneyGram dumps Ripple NYAG/Tether, Bitfinex settlement reveals commingling of funds, years of shenanigans Tether, Bitfinex to pay $18.5M to NYAG, cease trading in NY News: MicroStrategy needs more cowbell, Tether surpasses $34B, those laser eyes, Tether collapse doomsday scenario Proof of work—the reason behind Bitcoin’s horrendous energy consumption News: Tether prints $1B at a time, Tesla buys bitcoin, Roubini calls Saylor a cokehead, scammers hijack QuadrigaCX website Nouriel Roubini: ‘Tether is a criminal enterprise,’ SEC should probe Elon Musk’s bitcoin tweets Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on bitcoin, the filthiest asset imaginable News: Bitfinex pays off Tether loan, Tether mints $1.8B in a week, Nigerian central bank cuts off BTC services, Elon Musk tweets send DOGE soaring January 2021 News: Tether surpasses $26B, Elon Musk pumps BTC, Gregory Pepin’s magic trick Ripple shoots back at SEC claims, takes the Kik route News: Tether extends doc deadline, starts printing again; GBTC’s premium melts away; Ken Kurson pardoned ‘How can $24B in tethers move a $650B Bitcoin market cap?’ and other mathematically illiterate questions News: Tether’s offshore Deltec Bank, the Bit Short, NYAG’s document deadline, Tether truthers compare skeptics to QAnon Larry Cermak and Bennett Tomlin debate Tether’s solvency—transcript with notes Tether’s Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner do a podcast—transcript and my comments Nocoiner predictions: 2021 will be a year of comedy gold December 2020 News: Bitcoin tops $24,000, Ledger’s gift to SIM swappers, Pornhub only accepts crypto now, FinCEN’s new rule Judge gives Reggie Fowler 45 days to find new defense counsel News: Michael Saylor buys bitcoin with abandon, Tether reaches $20B, MassMutual jumps on BTC bandwagon News: Bitcoin’s new crazy god, Tether’s runaway train, Binance sees $1B profits, STABLE Act threatens stablecoins Reggie Fowler owes lawyers $600,000 November 2020 News: Bitcoin tops $24,000, Ledger’s gift to SIM swappers, Pornhub only accepts crypto now, FinCEN’s new rule Reggie Fowler, man linked to missing Bitfinex funds, hoodwinks his own defense team Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin’s latest bubble? News: BTC moons, Reggie Fowler stiffs lawyers, OKEx withdrawals still frozen, Binance gets piles of USDT Confirmed: Reggie Fowler can’t pay his lawyers Reginald Fowler’s lawyers want to quit. Did he neglect to pay them? What’s in Quadriga’s 7th Report of the Trustee? (Hint: mostly admin stuff) News: Virgil Griffith wants charges tossed, MicroStrategy bets big on BTC, Ledger hacked October 2020 News: Modern Consensus co-founder arrested, PayPal embraces bitcoin, Peter Schiff in the hot seat September 2020 Quadriga’s trustee hires blockchain analytics firm April 2020 Judge to EY: You’re free to hand over Quadriga user data to tax collector March 2020 Bankruptcy trustee to hand over QuadrigaCX user data to Canada’s tax collector News: COVID-19 shuts down crypto conferences, Libra activates plan B, investor sues bitcoin miner Canaan Judge reschedules Reggie Fowler’s trial for next year Coronavirus: Will crypto conferences survive? What about crypto media? February 2020 News: Ripple paid Moneygram $11M, weird stuff going on with e-Payments, fraudster tries to buy Perth Glory, another bitcoin ETF bites the dust We’re in Vancouver for a Quadriga documentary Reggie Fowler allegedly funded sports league with ill-gotten gains Personal update: I left my job at Modern Consensus Documents point to QuadrigaCX using payment processor Crypto Capital News: Crypto Mom wants to give criminals a head start, IOTA’s meltdown, Lubin’s organism divides News: Crypto Fyre Fest collapses, Virgil Griffith pleads not guilty, lawyers push to exhume body of Quadriga’s dead CEO January 2020 The high cost of fulfilling law enforcement requests: Quadriga’s 5th trustee report Law firm for Quadriga creditors puts pressure on RCMP to dig up Cotten Personal update: My new gig at Modern Consensus News: CBDCs are hot, Vodafone pulls out of Libra, more WB21 stuff, Quadriga update December 2019 Sweet home Alabama — Virgil Griffith free on $1M bail to live with parents News: Ex-employee sues Kraken, Reggie Fowler to change not-guilty plea, Circle sheds another crypto business News: Quadriga creditors want Cotten’s body exhumed, NYAG/iFinex standoff continues, Bottle Pay shutting down November 2019 DOJ arrests Ethereum Foundation coder for teaching North Korea how to launder money, evade sanctions July 2019 News: Bitmarket CEO turns up dead, Bitfinex to NYAG: ‘Yeah but no but,’ more weirdness from Tron News: Former Wex CEO arrested, CFTC probes BitMEX, Facebook’s Libra grilled in Washington News: NYAG calls Bitfinex out, Bitfunder founder off to jail, Roubini pissed at Bitmex June 2019 My story in Decrypt: “QuadrigaCX CEO traded millions in fake funds to fund luxury lifestyle, alleges trustee” I wrote “Bitcoin ATMs — Why Vancouver doesn’t want them” CLAM flash crash forces Poloniex to socialize $14 million worth of BTC in losses—what happened The HODLcast: “QuadrigaCX with Amy Castor and David Gerard” May 2019 News: LEO is getting pumped, Cryptopia scrambles to save its data, Poloniex says it’s stopped ignoring customers “QuadrigaCX traders lost money on Cryptopia on the same day in January” —my first story for Decrypt News: Kraken sets out to raise millions, Circle is cutting staff, Bitfinex scores another tiny victory in court Turns out, you can make money on horse manure, and tethers are worth just that QuadrigaCX Trustee’s Preliminary Report: ‘Yup, looks like your money’s all gone’ News: $250 million longs wiped out by bitcoin whale, Binance reopens withdrawals, Bitfinex set to trade LEO NY Supreme Court Judge: Bitfinex may not touch Tether’s reserves for 90 days Reginald Fowler, man tied to missing Bitfinex funds, out on $5 million bail News: Money laundering in real time, Binance has you covered, maybe, and Bitfinex is ready to IEO with LEO Binance hacked to the tune of $41 million, but no worries, funds are SAFU Bitfinex to NYAG: You have no authority! We did nothing wrong! The HODLcast: A deep dive into Bitfinex with Amy Castor NYAG: Bitfinex needs to submit docs and stop dipping into Tether’s reserves News: More Bitfinex drama, Crypto Capital, a dodgy football businessman and a relationship coach US Government wants man at center of massive “cryptocurrency scheme” held without bail April 2019 New York Attorney General: Bitfinex is hiding $850 million in losses TalkGold — the ponzi forum where Quadriga’s Patryn and Cotten first met News: Craig Wright files more libel suits, exchanges respond by delisting BSV, and Arwen launches Judge extends Quadriga’s creditor protection, and EY squabbles with third-party payment processor News: 51-foot yacht for sale, Bitfinex enables margin trading with Tether, and Fake Satoshi threatens legal action Quadriga: Patryn, Cotten, and Midas Gold—a Liberty Reserve exchanger News: EY goes after Quadriga’s payment processors, more exchange hacks, and the SEC tells us what we already know EY recommends Quadriga shift to bankruptcy, moves to preserve Robertson’s assets, and wrestles with payment processors I’m in a podcast—“Why Won’t Amy Castor Just Shut Up About QuadrigaCX!” March 2019 News: WB21 rebrands, Patryn is without a doubt Dhanani, and Quadriga creditors now have a committee CipherBlade CSO and founder Richard Sanders responds Blockchain analytics firm CipherBlade steps in to launder ShapeShift’s image News: Quadriga’s law firm steps down, WB21 bullies another reporter, and Tether admits it’s running a fractional reserve Quadriga’s representative withdraws from CCAA hearings over potential conflict of interest News: I’m speaking in Vancouver, Kraken’s obsession with Quadriga, and Patryn may have been trading on BitMEX On and (literally) off the road to Quadriga—our perilous drive to Halifax Court grants Quadriga a 45-day stay and approves appointment of a new mouth to feed: a chief restructuring officer Third EY monitor’s report on Quadriga reveals empty bitcoin cold wallets and a dribbling of new funds Diving into WB21, the company holding $9 million of Quadriga money February 2019 ‘Platform error’ blamed for BTC being sent to Quadriga’s dead CEO’s cold wallet Two law firms appointed to represent QuadrigaCX creditors News: Quadriga, Quadriga, Quadriga How the hell did we get here? A timeline of Quadriga events News: Quadriga has gone bust, Kik is fighting back, and tether rose to fourth place, briefly Social media startup Kik is kicking back—at the SEC News: Radio silence from QuadrigaCX, wash trading doesn’t pay, and KYC data turning up on the dark web January 2019 News: ETC hacker returns money, Constantinople can wait, and a new twist in the QuadrigaCX saga The curious case of Tether: a complete timeline of events News: ETC hit by 51% attack, Tron is a marketing machine, and India’s banks want nothing to do with bitcoin After impressive claims, image rights platform KodakOne still has a lot to explain Create a website or blog at WordPress.com Subscribe Subscribed Amy Castor Join 954 other subscribers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Privacy Amy Castor Subscribe Subscribed Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar   Loading Comments...   Write a Comment... 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