Category: Sin Week

Novel psychoactive chemicals with names like 2C-B, AMT and 5-MeO-DMT are freely available at online marketplaces and digital currencies help facilitate global trade.

After experiencing skyrocketing growth during the crypto bull run last year, many players are down and out. What survives now that it has popped, mainly believers, will be stronger, some say.

Internet decentralization has stopped the shadow-banning of sexual images, adult performers say.

ACAMS’ crypto and illicit finance expert says the industry needs to be more than reluctant good citizens.

Three women share how greed, gluttony and pride have turned them off from dating crypto bros.

The legal cannabis industry’s problems go much deeper than a lack of access to banking. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Sin Week, which sheds lights on how illicit industries are using crypto and adapting to Web3.

Even the most ethical hacker can be lured in by the temptation of potential rewards.

While lobbyists don’t want the government to track guns with a registry, the blockchains driving crypto act like one. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Sin Week.

Vladislav Lobaev, a Russian gun manufacturer, raised $21,000 in crypto for the war in Ukraine before the world’s largest crypto exchange locked down the funds.

The decentralized sports betting exchange based on Solana is looking to build a global clearinghouse “where people can put up the bets they will take … and the bets they will meet…,” BetDEX Co-Founder Nigel Eccles said, on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

Daniel Saynt’s Manhattan sex club has plans for NFT membership and its own $NSFW token.

Data suggests that while authorities are getting better at sniffing out dark web markets, dark web markets are getting better at not being sniffed.

Tech is changing the way individuals live and innovate. How can this shift affect the trajectory of sex workers?

Private lives, public ledgers.

Crime can be an important signal that something in society needs reforming, writes David Z Morris. Financial surveillance that attempts to completely prevent crime could just make things worse in the long run. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Sin Week.

ICE Poker drives 60% of the Decentraland metaverse’s traffic. Is it a casino? More like a casino-that’s-not-a-casino.

Virtual reality is fun. It’s a release. But when does it become a little too real?