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The crypto market read as an industry: the rules it operates under, the channels open to it, and the constraints that shape how its businesses are allowed to reach customers. Less about what prices did than about the conditions in which prices happen. Regulation and platform policy both move, and they move differently in different jurisdictions, so every piece here carries a review date, names the jurisdiction it describes, and says plainly where a rule stops applying.
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Why crypto brands cannot buy their way to visibility
A MiCA licence passports across the EEA. Google's advertising permission does not — and comparison destinations cannot advertise at all, licence or no licence.
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What wash trading is, and why volume can be invented
Exchange volume is self-reported. In 2019 Bitwise showed the SEC that ~$6bn of daily bitcoin volume was really $273m — and the incentive behind it persists.