While the vitriol and mocking of public-facing venture capitalists like Jason Calacanis, David Ackman, and David Sacks is always welcome, what needs to be rendered clear is that there’s a deeper hypocrisy poisoning the well of venture capital: VCs refusing to acknowledge that they’re a community of like-minded individuals, who helped Silicon Valley Bank -- their bank of choice -- fail.

Let’s go back to the beginning.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against Justin Sun, affiliated firms, and celebrity promoters, alleging market manipulation and sales of unregistered securities.

Listen to the article to learn the allegations the commission is making against Sun and his TRX and BTT tokens.

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The bitcoin mining industry has suffered a bear market lasting over a year. Miners lost the vast majority of their market capitalizations, resulting in companies seeking alternative sources of income, like taking subsidies for modulating municipal power grids, monetizing flared gas, or wholesaling stranded energy contracts.

Nonetheless, this year’s 64% rally in bitcoin has certainly buoyed mining stocks. The bull is back. Listen to this article to find out why.

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Singaporean crypto exchange OkCoin has suspended trading for NYCCoin and MiamiCoin, the respective cities' foray into cryptocurrencies, citing low liquidity.

According to a March 9 statement, token holders can withdraw their funds or keep them in their wallets -- but buying, selling, and trading isn't possible. However, OkCoin says it hopes to reopen these features soon.

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Coinbase execs have dumped nearly nine times more shares in the company than they’ve bought since the start of the year, according to data from insider trading tracker, Dataroma.

The most recent figures show that since late December, company insiders have sold more than half a million shares at a total value of just over $26 million. By contrast, only 57,000 shares, worth just under $2.6 million, have been bought.

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The US government is concerned about the unlikely yet destabilizing possibility of nationwide bank runs. The Federal Reserve and Treasury already bailed out two banks last week, including the second-largest bank failure in the country’s history: Silicon Valley Bank. Now, the US Treasury is considering a backstop of all bank deposits nationwide.

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Fully compliant crypto companies should be placed on a ‘white list’ to help banks to determine which ones are safe to expose to their clients, says CryptoUK, the UK’s leading crypto trade organization.

In a letter to regulators, CryptoUK says that circulating a list of safe firms is just one of a number of measures the government can take to prevent exchanges from being cut adrift from the financial system.

Listen to the article to hear why CryptoUK wants a 'white list.'

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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are looking for guidance on whether to treat non-fungible tokens as a collectible under tax law.

In it’s own research, the IRA are struggling to determine if different renditions of an NFT should be consider a collectible, from owning an NFT gem, to an NFT of a plot virtual land.

Listen to the article to find out exactly what the IRA wants to know from owners of NFTs.

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David Sacks, the VC famous for co-founding PayPal, his tech investments, and for buying and dumping $1 billion worth of Solana, raised the alarm during Silicon Valley Bank’s bank run.

In his panicky tweets, Sacks argued that if SVB wasn’t saved, regional and small banks would also experience bank runs, causing financial chaos.

Yet, it seems that a number of the PayPal Mafia -- a group of investors who founded the firm -- pulled their money out of the bank before asking the authorities to step in. Listen to the article find out why the venture capitalist's flawed views are so at odds with his position on other policy issues.

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The market cap of TrueUSD has more than doubled in the last month to over $2 billion. TrustToken Incorporated, one of the companies behind the True family of tokens advertises them as “maximally transparent,” but the reality is somewhat different.

Listen to the article to discover who runs this token, the on-chain behavior of its tokens, and the history of its attestations and reserves.

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