Joel Khalili

Advertisment

Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them

“I just want to sell titty pictures,” says Allie Eve Knox, a professional dominatrix and fetish performer, exhausted. “I never wanted to be an expert in financial discrimination.”After starting out in sex...

I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto

I’m here to see the Orb. The receptionist knows exactly what I’m talking about. I’m not the first person here for an audience. Inside the coworking space in Shoreditch, East London, a...

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky’s Arrest Won’t Fix Crypto

Alex Mashinsky has been living on borrowed time for months. In January, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius was hit with a lawsuit by the New York Attorney...

London Wants American Crypto Refugees

Rishi Sunak likes crypto. The UK’s prime minister was finance minister during crypto’s last hot streak in 2021, when the hype cycle pushed the value of cryptocurrencies to record levels. The following...

A Crypto Micronation’s Future Hangs on a Border Dispute

Late one morning in April, a boat called Liberty sailed down the Danube on a reconnaissance mission, toward a destination found on no map or atlas. It was decorated with the yellow...

Bankrupt Crypto Companies Are Fighting Over a Dwindling Pot of Money

The liquidator of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is trying to retrieve nearly $4 billion for creditors—from another bankrupt crypto firm. After a hearing on June 15, a court in the Southern District...

SEC's 'Scathing' Charges Against Binance Deal a Big Blow to US Crypto

It’s no secret that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange—which has no head office or formal address but processes $12 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions...

Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great

As cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there’s one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto scam or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White’s blog, Web3 Is...

Joel Khalili

Advertisment