Was Grayscale’s bitcoin premium a leveraged ponzi?

John Cook
10 min readDec 3, 2022

Originally published on frontruncrypto.com — click here to subscribe for free.

Dear frontrunners,

Previously we concluded the most recent episode of wealth destruction across the crypto ecosystem was a result of the co-mingling of depositor funds enabled by a ponzi coin with supply and demand artificially engineered by a centralized party: FTX. Both acts were crystalized as an attempt to backstop FTX’s partner hedge fund Alameda Research from insolvency vis-a-vis the summer 2022 crypto collapse. For those playing…

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John Cook

Advocate of transparent financial systems & governments that serve the people | Macro, markets & crypto research @ http://frontruncrypto.com