What should we investigate?

In our last vote, 52% of votes came out in favor of doing more investigations, with 46% of votes telling us to keep doing what we're doing. So we're going to do both — continuing to bring you weekly Coinage episodes while also starting work on a long-form investigation.

We're interested in three possibilities, which are described below. If none of these sounds interesting to you, feel free to vote for the fourth option, and we'll come back with different options!

#1: The Lazarus Group. North Korea's state-sponsored hacking organization has been incredibly successful in going after crypto companies, from their eye-watering $650M hack of Axie Infinity brought on by a fake job application to the recent $35M Atomic Wallet hack, which is also linked to the group. How is Lazarus so good at this? Where is the money going? And how can crypto companies keep themselves safe?

#2: Tornado Cash. The infamous crypto mixing service on Ethereum (that was once beloved by the Lazarus Group) has had a tumultuous history. The decentralized protocol has been sanctioned by the U.S. government, one of its developers was arrested by Dutch authorities, and just recently the protocol was hacked — with its stolen tokens routed through Tornado Cash, of course — and then... un-hacked? We dig into Tornado Cash and what it means for the future of privacy in crypto

#3: Richard Heart and HEX. Heart, AKA Richard James Schueler, launched the long-awaited Pulse protocol on HEX last month. And it went great! (Just kidding) We dig into this peculiar crypto influencer, discuss why a clone of Ethereum has a market cap of billions of dollars, and get to the Heart of the matter. (Sorry)