Bitcoin mixing is a way to gain a little privacy for your blockchain transactions. To make it more difficult to see who sent Bitcoin to whom tokens are sent through a “tumbler” or Bitcoin mixer. This is a set of private crypto pools. The resulting tokens are then taken out…

We used to think that the Madoff Ponzi scheme where billions were lost was the worst investment scam ever. That was until the OneCoin Ponzi scheme was taken down. We were reminded of the OneCoin scheme because an article in Bloomberg reported the sentencing of the “cryptoqueen” sidekick, Karl Greenwood…

As 2022 came to an end we were writing about crypto winter and whether the FTX collapse was failed business or fraud. Nearly a year later Sam Bankman-Fried is in jail awaiting trial. FTX is going through bankruptcy proceedings. Things like who gets paid and who gets stiffed are getting…

We have written recently about spot Bitcoin ETFs. The odds seem to be getting better that this way of holding and trading Bitcoin may become a reality. This is good news for the several companies that want to provide ETFs that track the spot price of Bitcoin. It may not…

A movie box office surprise in 2023 was the movie, Barbie. The movie about a doll that escapes to and has to deal with the real world grossed $1.38 billion in theaters in the first six weeks after its premier. It is the highest grossing Warner Brothers picture ever. While…

While crypto has seen marginal relief from the depths of crypto winter, one corner of the of the crypto world is back to record highs. That corner belongs to liquid crypto staking. Anyone who followed the hype and jumped into crypto at the 2021 $60,000+ Bitcoin peak should not be…

If you invest in or trade cryptocurrencies, your goal is to make a profit. When you take that profit by converting your crypto back into dollars, you owe the IRS taxes on your capital gains. Whether you pay short term capital gains or long term capital gains depends on how…

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with stable prices. The most stable are those that are pegged to a major currency like the US dollar and have one to one reserves of that currency. Because these cryptocurrencies have a predictable value over time they are used for decentralized finance contracts, to transfer money…

Grayscale just won a case in appeals court against the SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission had denied their application to start a spot Bitcoin ETF. In everyone’s mind these folks have moved to the front of the line for starting an EFT that tracks the spot price of Bitcoin…