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Can Binance Survive the SEC's Charges?

Don’t bet against someone with eight million Twitter followers who built by far the largest crypto exchange.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

The SEC Is Fighting the Last War

SEC chair Gary Gensler wants you to think Coinbase and Binance are the same as FTX and Celsius. They’re not.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill, September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Are Centralized Exchanges in the U.S. Doomed?

With the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, the agency is signaling it really is now or never to “come into compliance.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (CoinDesk screen grab from video)

Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic

Chainalysis and Elliptic have found that crypto is useful for crime, but that’s hardly an argument for banning it.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been a longtime crypto critic. (Gage Skidmore)