Sunday, October 5, 2025

NFTs and Cryptos

What the hell happened to NFTs?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/rise-and-fall-of-nfts/
The mad gold rush of the digital art world has come to an abrupt end – and people are losing money fast.

Crypto skulduggery isn’t a bug, it’s the whole point
https://www.ft.com/content/dbd01d5c-521c-44c8-a401-b09bda391da5
Crypto itself is the Wild West of finance, where exploiting regulatory loopholes and bypassing national controls is the name of the game. The bros will protest that the blockchain is a transparent shared database where the transactions are there to see in plain sight. But while that may be partially true, what they will fail to tell you is that the parties involved are visible only as strings of numbers and letters, and that those in the know use crypto “mixers” and privacy coins to scramble them around to the point that transactions are essentially untraceable. 

The crypto bros at risk of losing everything
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/01/the-crypto-bros-at-risk-of-losing-everything/
Investors are getting swept up by a ‘castle in the air’ that threatens to come crashing down.