Media

Media

Policy

Bloomberg, WSJ, CoinDesk Among the Media Outlets Seeking to Know Who Bailed Out Sam Bankman-Fried

Lawyers for the former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX requested and were granted anonymity for two parties who backed the $250 million bond that sprung Bankman-Fried from jail.

El fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research Secretly Funded Crypto Media Site The Block and Its CEO

CEO Michael McCaffrey has resigned as a result of the loans coming to light, The Block confirmed.

Michael McCaffrey has resigned as CEO of The Block. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Sam Bankman-Fried's Self-Incrimination Tour

The disgraced man-child’s media apology tour may sway the underinformed. But it can only hurt Bankman-Fried where it counts – in the courtroom.

Sam Bankman-Fried sticking his tongue out while at Crypto Bahamas earlier this year. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Let’s Talk About the New York Times' ‘Puff Piece’ on Sam Bankman-Fried

How complicit is the media in the FTX and Alameda Research co-founder's rise and fall?

AI Artwork SBM Sam Bankman-Fried (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

What Bloomberg’s Crypto Opus Means for the Next Bull Market

Star finance writer Matt Levine devoted an entire Businessweek issue to crypto. That may be game over for hard-line skeptics.

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Finance

Outside Magazine Wants the Metaverse to Take a Hike

The fitness lifestyle media company’s “anti-metaverse”platform will give users incentive to ski, run, bike or hike using NFTs and other rewards.

The Outerverse plans to use an "Outside to Earn" model to get people hiking. (Adam Bautz/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Mila Kunis-Linked Web3 Studio Toonstar Partners With Hot Topic to Market Entertainment NFTs

Toonstar is partnering with Hot Topic to target the intersection of entertainment and NFTs, through retail.

(Flavio Coelho/Getty Images)

Opinion

FUD or Facts? Terra, Celsius Show Value of Asking Questions

Kicking the tires on crypto projects and holding people accountable for flaws within them is how the industry will improve and grow.

Hear no FUD, speak no FUD, see no FUD. (PxHere)

Videos

How Coverage of Crypto in the Media Has Evolved and Is Changing

‘The Cryptopians’ author Laura Shin, CoinDesk Regulatory Reporter Amitoj Singh, Cointelegraph Senior Reporter Rachel Wolfson and Decrypt Reporter Jason Nelson discuss how crypto in the media is changing at Consensus in Austin, Texas.

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