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What’s All the Fuss About Bitcoin ETFs?

Fake news of SEC approval for a spot bitcoin ETF sent markets higher. Why are traders so obsessed with this new product?

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

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Is Hamas Using Crypto to Attack Israel? We Don’t Know

Reports this week about multi-million dollar Hamas crypto financing may have left a faulty impression.

Hamas' military wing to stop accepting bitcoin donations. (Joel Carillet/Getty)

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Is Sam Bankman-Fried a Sociopath?

And are bad men made or molded by circumstance?

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Jim Cramer Doesn't Know Bitcoin

The TV talking head said “Mr. Bitcoin is about to go down big” on CNBC.

Jim Cramer

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Defending the Indefensible? Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Deserve Better

The FTX founder's lawyers have been given no quarter by District Judge Lewis Kaplan, overseeing the case.

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What Happened During Sam Bankman-Fried's First Week in Court?

Highlights from the opening days of six-week-long trial, author Michael Lewis' SBF biography and recently filed court documents.

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Sam Bankman-Fried's Trim May Undercut His Defense

If your defense is “I didn’t know what was happening,” don’t dress like a competent person.

Now that the FTX founder is in the proverbial hot seat, perhaps he should have kept his unkempt mane, CoinDesk Managing Editor Ben Schiller writes. (Chris Knight/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Could Sam Bankman-Fried's Saga Happen Without Crypto?

The alleged fraud at FTX is a symptom of problems within crypto, something the industry must reckon with especially as an easy scapegoat goes on trial.

Is crypto "uniquely" at fault for Sam Bankman-Fried's rise and fall? (CoinDesk, modified)(CoinDesk, modified)

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Is Michael Lewis Throwing Out His Reputation to Defend Sam Bankman-Fried?

The reigning financial writer's latest book, “Going Infinite,” is an eyewitness account of the fall of FTX’s founder, who Lewis said is “misunderstood.”

Michael Lewis (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk, modifed)

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Americans (Seemingly) Aren't Allowed to Put This Economic Theory to the Test

The CFTC keeps putting fences around prediction markets, which some say are better way to aggregate information.

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