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The Truth About Crypto and Sex Work

Sex workers are skeptical that crypto can answer all their financial problems. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week.

By Leigh CuenSep 19, 2023, 10:35 a.m. EDT

Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk

Aug 18, 2023, 3:40 p.m. EDT

State of Crypto: Policy and Regulation

Jun 29, 2023, 10:45 a.m. EDT

Who Is William MacAskill, the Oxford Philosopher Who Shaped Sam Bankman-Fried’s Worldview?

A prominent voice in the “effective altruism” movement, MacAskill has served as Sam Bankman-Fried’s mentor.

Nov 22, 2022, 9:58 a.m. EST

William MacAskill (williammacaskill.com)

Who's Who in the FTX Inner Circle

FTX collapsed. These were the players closest to the implosion.

Nov 22, 2022, 9:53 a.m. EST

Ukrainian Government Puts Binance Payment Service Integration on Hold

Nov 28, 2022, 4:56 p.m. EST

Who Is Alameda's Former co-CEO Sam Trabucco?

Nov 22, 2022, 10:06 a.m. EST

Who Is Gary Wang, the Mysterious Co-Founder of FTX and Alameda?

Nov 22, 2022, 10:03 a.m. EST

Who Is Alameda Research's Caroline Ellison?

Nov 22, 2022, 10:01 a.m. EST

'A Complete Failure of Corporate Controls': What Investors and Accountants Missed in FTX’s Audits

Nov 18, 2022, 9:12 a.m. EST

How Traditional Artists Are Using Web3 to Meet New Audiences

Nov 17, 2022, 4:49 p.m. EST

Markets

Bitget hacker moves $83 million in stolen XRP that Ripple cannot freeze

17 hours ago

Circle and Tether freeze hacker's stablecoin (Etherscan)

Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist

Sep 25, 2026

Policy

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

U.S. SEC's steadiest crypto advocate, Hester Peirce, to depart next week

Sep 25, 2026

Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Another appeals court rules against prediction market provider Kalshi, says sports contracts are subject to state regulations

Sep 25, 2026

Crypto Users Want to Pay Taxes, but We Need Clearer Rules

The need for comprehensive crypto tax reform will become clearer as people start interacting with blockchains – and incurring capital gains taxes – without realizing.

Nov 17, 2022, 9:31 a.m. EST

Web3 Is Heading to the World Cup

Virtual lounges for your avatar to watch a livestream of the game? Web3 doesn’t get more meta than the mind-bending plans for the World Cup in Qatar.

Nov 16, 2022, 4:57 p.m. EST

Soccer ball goal sports football (Shutterstock)

Ukrainian Official Refutes FTX-Ukraine Money Laundering Rumors

The deputy crypto chief of Ukrainian government says war-torn country used FTX only as a fiat on-ramp.

Nov 14, 2022, 5:23 p.m. EST

From left To right: Rev Miller, Atlantis World co-founder; Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s deputy minister for Digital Transformation, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin
(Kyiv Tech Summit)

The State of Crypto Taxation in India: Past, Present and Future

Even though the legality of crypto in India is still a matter of debate, new crypto tax laws are already affecting businesses and individuals.

Nov 14, 2022, 9:15 a.m. EST

(Julian Yu/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Effective’ Altruism Blew Up FTX

The Alameda Research and FTX founder believed he had singular insight into how to fix the world's problems. Instead, he wound up exemplifying them.

Nov 11, 2022, 12:06 p.m. EST