Coin Prices

BNB

$235.75

1.01%

XRP

$0.647136

-0.43%

OKB

$56.89

-2.06%

EOS

$0.765418

-1.73%

Bonk

$0.00001178

44.06%

Pepe

$0.00000155

2.64%

NEM

$0.03917058

1.73%

WAX

$0.067105

1.08%

IOST

$0.00972601

0.93%

Kin

$0.00002268

2.31%

OST

$0.00031743

-2.08%
Price data by
Stephen Graves

Stephen Graves

Stephen oversees sponsored content, Learn, and other special editorial and commercial projects at Decrypt. Previously he has contributed to titles including Stylus, Stuff, and LS:N Global. Disclosure: He owns 1 BTC and a significant amount of SCRT and SIENNA, and has recused himself from writing or editing stories about SCRT and SIENNA.

Stories by Stephen Graves

  • Montenegro Set to Extradite Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon to US: Report

    Montenegro will extradite Terra co-founder Do Kwon to the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the WSJ reported that Montenegro's Justice Minister, Andrej Milovic, had privately said he plans to send Do Kwon to the U.S. rather than South Korea. The Terraform Labs co-founder faces charges in both countries and has been the subject of a jurisdictional battle between the two countries. Do Kwon's extradition was approved by a Montenegro cou...

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    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Image: BitcoinShrooms

    Auction House Sotheby's Announces First Sale of Bitcoin Ordinals Collection

    Sotheby's is to sell a Bitcoin Ordinals collection in a first for the 279-year-old auction house. The sale of pieces from BitcoinShrooms, an ordinals project by pseudonymous artist Shroomtoshi, is the first time works from the collection will be made available to the public, Sotheby's said. The collection consists of a series of pixel art pieces that reference Bitcoin's history and underlying principles, including memes and technical concepts. In a statement, ShroomToshi called the collection a...

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    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Image: Robinhood

    Robinhood Crypto Launches in EU With 'Crypto Back' Bitcoin Rewards Program

    Trading platform Robinhood is launching its crypto app in the EU, with a Bitcoin rewards program that will see customers earn a percentage of their trading volume back each month in BTC. According to a blog post announcing the news, the Robinhood Crypto will roll out to "all eligible customers in the European Union" alongside a rewards program based on customers' total trading volume, with Bitcoin rewards deposited in their account. A referral program also offers "up to 1 BTC" for signing up and...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Binance CEO Richard Teng. Image: Binance

    Binance CEO Richard Teng: Compliance Controls Were 'Inadequate'

    Newly appointed Binance CEO Richard Teng attempted to draw a line under the crypto exchange’s past issues, conceding that compliance controls were “inadequate” and arguing that the company could “move past a challenging chapter.” Speaking at the Financial Times Crypto Winter Summit, Teng said that, “The compliance controls that we had in those early days were inadequate for the size of company we were becoming very quickly,” acknowledging that, “there were mistakes made.” He claimed that the exc...

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    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Adrienne Harris, Lisa Cameron MP and Peter Kerstens. Image: FT Crypto Summit

    New York Regulator: Crypto ‘Lends Itself to Illicit Finance’

    New York state financial regulator Adrienne Harris argued that crypto’s “element of anonymity” creates an environment in which it can be used in illicit finance. Speaking on a panel at the Financial Times Crypto Winter Summit, Harris, who serves as Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said that crypto “really is an environment that lends itself to illicit finance, to bad actors.” Using the example of a ransom payment in cash, Harris pointed out that, “someone s...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his wife, Gabriela. Image: Wikimedia Commons

    Bitcoin Rally Propels El Salvador's Holdings Into Profit, Says President

    Bitcoin's rally to an 18-month high over $42,000 has pushed El Salvador's BTC buys into the black, said the country's president Nayib Bukele. Posting on Twitter, Bukele announced that at Bitcoin's current market price, the country would make a profit of around $3.6 million were it to sell its holdings. "Of course, we have no intention of selling; that has never been our objective," Bukele added, noting that the country is "fully aware that the price will continue to fluctuate in the future," and...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Coinbase

    Coinbase CEO: Bitcoin 'May Be Key to Extending Western Civilization'

    In a series of posts on Twitter, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued that by providing an alternative to the reserve currency, Bitcoin "may be the key to extending western civilization." Armstrong said that as the country controlling the reserve currency, the U.S. is on the path to inflating the money supply and increasing deficit spending, "until it loses that advantage." With the Chinese Yuan and the Euro having "their own issues," Armstrong suggested that "the assumption is the U.S. can conti...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Coinbase

    Coinbase CEO: Future AI ‘Agents’ Will Transact in Crypto

    Autonomous AI “agents” will transact using crypto in the future, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued in an interview with Decrypt. “There are going to be more and more AI agents in the future, which are essentially bots that are trying to perform various tasks out there in the world,” Armstrong said. Those agents will need to transact in order to pay for services like information and API calls, he added. “It's hard to imagine a world where different AI agents are paying each other with Visa, or...

  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Coinbase (Image edited by Decrypt using AI, subject was not altered)

    Coinbase Has No Plans to Launch Base Token: CEO Brian Armstrong

    Coinbase has no plans to launch a token for its layer-2 network Base, according to the crypto exchange’s CEO Brian Armstrong. “We’re not planning to make any token for Base,” Armstrong told Decrypt during an exclusive interview. He appeared to contradict an earlier statement by Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, who told Decrypt in September that, “I think a token could be viable at some point in the future,” adding that, “It’s not something we’ve ruled out entirely.” A Coinbase spokesper...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • The Bitcoin halving. Image: Decrypt

    What is the Bitcoin Halving? How Bitcoin's Supply is Limited.

    Every four years, the amount of Bitcoin doled out to cryptocurrency miners halves in a process imaginatively known as Bitcoin halving (or halvening). Here’s why—and how—it works. Bitcoin’s supply limit To understand the Bitcoin halving, we must first understand the theory behind its supply. The inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, believed that scarcity could create value where there was none before. After all, there’s only one Mona Lisa, only so many Picassos, a limited supply of gold on Eart...

  • Reddit has made several moves in the crypto space. Image: Shutterstock.

    Moons Surge Double-Digits as Reddit Renounces Contract, Burns 98,000 Tokens

    Moons, the crypto token of Reddit's r/cryptocurrency community, is up by double-digits on the day after Reddit "officially renounced" the Moons contract. The social media platform burned its remaining 98,000 Moons tokens as part of the process, which also imposes a hard cap on the supply of approximately 83 million Moons. The r/cryptocurrency subreddit's mod team hailed the move as a "significant milestone" for the community in a statement, noting that it "now has assurance that there will be no...

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    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Coinbase

    Coinbase CEO Is ‘Pretty Optimistic’ on Bitcoin ETF Approval

    A spot Bitcoin ETF has become something of a holy grail for the crypto industry—despite repeated pushback by the SEC—but Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is “pretty optimistic” that one will be approved soon. While stressing that he doesn’t have “proprietary or inside knowledge” on the matter, Armstrong told Decrypt that, “from everything I’ve read publicly […] it feels to me like we’re getting closer to an approval.” “I’m pretty optimistic we’ll see something approved on an ETF next year,” he added...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Coinbase

    Coinbase CEO: We Asked the SEC for Feedback, All We Got Was a Lawsuit

    San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is under fire from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, despite the company’s attempts to seek clarity from the regulator, according to CEO Brian Armstrong. In an exclusive interview with Decrypt, Armstrong said Coinbase has met with the SEC 30 times over the last 18 months. "We haven't really gotten any feedback from them about which assets they believe are securities and which they believe are not," he said, "other than Bitcoin.” Cit...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Bitcoin and renewable energy. Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Mining Could 'Mitigate' Climate Change: Cornell Study

    A new study by researchers at Cornell University found that Bitcoin mining could mitigate against climate change by accelerating the shift to renewable energy. The study, “From Mining to Mitigation: How Bitcoin Can Support Renewable Energy Development and Climate Action,” investigated planned renewable energy projects in the U.S., calculating the potential profit from Bitcoin mining during the precommercial development phase. During this phase, wind and solar farms generate energy but are not ye...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Charles Hoskinson on stage at Web Summit 2022. Image: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Web Summit via Sportsfile (CC BY 2.0 Deed)

    Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson: Bitcoin Gets ‘Complete Pass’ From SEC

    Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson launched a blistering attack on the U.S. Securities and  Exchange Commission (SEC) in a recent livestream, accusing it of giving Bitcoin a “complete pass” over the question of whether it’s sufficiently decentralized to not be considered a security. “If you subpoena and attack about three different entities, you could perform a 51% attack on Bitcoin because that's the way the hash power works,” Hoskinson said. “But it's decentralized, apparently. And Team Orange...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes on the gm from Decrypt podcast. (Art: Grant Kempster)

    BitMEX Founder Arthur Hayes: U.S. Treatment of CZ, Binance ‘Absurd’

    BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes has argued that Binance and its former CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao were singled out for “absurd” punishment at the hands of the U.S. legal system. In a lengthy blog post, Hayes claimed that, “the treatment of CZ and Binance is absurd,” arguing that it “highlights the arbitrary nature of punishment at the hands of the state.” The $4.3 billion fine levied against the exchange was, Hayes said, disproportionately harsh compared to the treatment of “Too Big to Fail bank CEOs”...

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    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Bitcoin and Christmas. Image: Shutterstock

    Crypto Holiday Gift Guide 2023

    It's the season for giving, and there's no shortage of gifts available for fans of Web3, crypto, and emerging tech. We've rounded up our favorite holiday gifts from the worlds of Web3, crypto, and AI. Whether you're looking for a crypto-themed stocking filler or something special, we've got you covered with our holiday gift guide. Trezor Safe 3 Trezor Safe 3. Image: Trezor In the wake of the FTX collapse, cryptocurrency users have been embracing self-custody—but the concept can be challenging fo...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    5 min read
    Andrew Hayward, Stephen Graves
  • Do Kwon in January 2021. Image via Delphi Media video

    Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon's Extradition Approved by Montenegro Court

    Terra founder Do Kwon's extradition has been approved by a court in Montenegro's capital Podgorica—though a final decision has yet to be made on whether he will be extradited to the U.S. or South Korea. According to an update posted on the Courts of Montenegro website, Kwon's extradition will proceed pending a final decision by the country's Minister of Justice, who will decide which country has priority. Prior to his extradition, Do Kwon will first serve his four-month sentence in Montenegro fo...

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    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Image: Global News

    Cool Cats NFT Collection Joins Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

    NFT collection Cool Cats has joined iconic characters including Pikachu and Ronald McDonald as a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon. The Cool Cats balloon, which depicts the collection's main character Blue Cat and milk carton Chugs, accompanies this week's launch of a YouTube Shorts series, "The Milk Chug". It’s almost time! 💙 pic.twitter.com/s7ObSNWOQ7 — clon (@cloncast) November 23, 2023 A limited-edition Cool Cats hoodie marking the occasion will also be available in Herald Square Mac...

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    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao at Web Summit 2022. Image: Ben McShane/Web Summit via Sportsfile (CC BY 2.0 Deed)

    U.S. Prosecutors Want Ex-Binance CEO CZ to Remain in the Country Until Sentencing

    U.S. prosecutors want Binance CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao to remain in the country until his sentencing, according to a court filing. In the filing, prosecutors cite the "substantial risk of flight posed by Zhao," requesting that he not be permitted to return to the United Arab Emirates ahead of his sentencing on February 23, 2024. As part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Zhao pleaded guilty on one charge of violating the Bank Secrecy Act and stepped down as the exchange's...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
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