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Happy Monday, readers. I'm Phil Rosen, reporting from New York City.
In case you missed it, last week Microsoft held an event that had the buzz of a Steve Jobs iPhone launch.
“Crypto? Oh, that’s right, cryptocurrencies. Those fake digital coins, right? I remember seeing them at last year’s Super Bowl. Larry David was in one. I thought that commercial was pretty funny. Say, how is that whole crypto thing doing?”
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It’s 2023 and financial crimes and their consequences have officially come to cryptocurrency. Relatively new on the laundry list of blockchain-based offenses that can lead directly to jail: insider trading.