How Shiba Inu Was Born, Went Viral, and Built an Army Let me set the scene for you. It’s August 2020. Someone leans over and tells you about an exciting new cryptocurrency. It was launched anonymously. It has no roadmap, no product, and a starting budget of about $3000. Its entire brand strategy amounts to […]
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When the music stops in crypto, it stops hard Every few years, crypto throws a party so loud the neighbours start banging on the walls and then, with grim inevitability, someone marches over and yanks the plug clean out of the speakers. In October 2025, the music didn’t just stop. It stopped hard. And here
There’s a particular kind of tired that sleep won’t touch. You know the one. You can clock a full eight hours, drink the alarming green thing, book the spa weekend you keep promising yourself and still wake up with that faint, nagging sense that you’re somehow winning a race you never actually meant to enter.
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Let me describe a holiday you may recognise. Five cities in seven days. A suitcase that never fully unpacks. A camera roll bulging with photos of landmarks you half-remember, taken mostly so you could prove you’d been. You come home more exhausted than when you left and quietly, guiltily wonder whether you actually enjoyed any
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Let me share something about DeFi. Most of the jargon exists, whether by accident or design, to make you feel like you’re not clever enough to be in the room. I refuse to let it do that to you. So here’s my promise: understanding decentralised finance really comes down to just three ideas, stacked neatly
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Let me be honest with you about the mood in the room, because I can feel it too. There’s a weariness that has crept into everyone watching this bill, a jaded sigh. People have stopped asking when the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will pass and started muttering ‘if ‘ and honestly, who could blame
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November 2025 · MARKETS Let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard, expensive way: every crypto bull market ends in more or less the same fashion. Not with a gentle, dignified fade, but suddenly the floor vanishes beneath everyone’s feet at once. And the trapdoor is always built from the same material. Leverage. The
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Throughout 2025 · INSTITUTIONAL FINANCE I want to tell you about the most important thing happening in crypto right now, and I’ll warn you up front: it is gloriously, almost defiantly boring. No meme dogs. No overnight millionaires. No laser eyes. Just the quiet, unglamorous business of the world’s biggest financial institutions moving the actual
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Throughout 2025 · MENTAL HEALTH 2025 marked the moment mental health shifted from a topic people talked about to one they actively invested in, with a growing industry For years, the advice was the same, wasn’t it? Just talk about it. And it was good advice, genuinely. Breaking the silence around mental health was a
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March–April 2025 · POLICY & REGULATION Every so often, a piece of lawmaking comes along that accidentally exposes just how little the rule-makers understood the thing they were trying to rule. The IRS’s “DeFi broker rule” was one of those, and its unwinding in 2025 tells you something rather important about where crypto regulation is
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