Every good story needs a true believer. Crypto’s was Michael Saylor. If conviction had a patron saint, it was him — the executive chairman of Strategy, who hoovered up more than 800,000 bitcoin and built its entire identity around one deceptively simple mantra, repeated like scripture at conference after conference: never sell. Two words. Diamond-handed […]
May 5–7, 2026 · Miami Beach Convention Center · 20,000+ attendees I have a soft spot for the way people describe crypto’s big gatherings. If TOKEN2049 is the festival and the Bitcoin Conference is the revival meeting — all whooping and true belief — then Consensus is unmistakably the boardroom. Fewer laser eyes. Rather more
How Shiba Inu Grew Up, Went to Japan, and Got Serious After the meme came a Layer-2 blockchain, a seat on Japan’s most exclusive crypto list, and the longest waiting game in digital finance. Part Two of the SHIB story. If you missed the first instalment, let me catch you up in a breath: an
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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
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 simply vanishing beneath everyone’s feet at once. And the trapdoor is always built from the same material.
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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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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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