2022 wasn’t all bad for the crypto industry, but it was mostly pretty bad. From the sanctioning of Tornado Cash to the NFT speculative bubble popping to the collapse of Terra and FTX to the bankruptcies of Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi, most in Web3 will be happy to see 2022 go. Bitcoin is closing the year down 64% and Ethereum down 67%. But hey: 2023 is a new year. Below, read our fun roundups of the year that was. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has been an outspoken advocate for crypto and a candid critic of her own agency’s approach to regulating crypto markets. In an extensive chat with Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott she discussed FTX, Gary Gensler, DeFi, and the problems with the Howey Test. Don’t miss this conversation for the inside take on the SEC’s thinking on crypto—straight from the source.
In an extensive talk with Decrypt’s Dan Roberts at Camp Decrypt in Napa CA in October, Edward Snowden gave his candid views on the Ethereum merge, the sanctioning of Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash by the U.S. government, the privacy shortcomings of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and his view on using DAOs to source tips from whistleblowers.
We don’t know quite what to say about this one, but BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes retweeting this image someone else made of him eating SBF and calling SBF “soy boy” was Very Crypto Twitter. (Source)
