We’re doing a special episode on cryptocurrency this week and covering what occurred in May of 2022 when the world watched as one of the biggest projects imploded. Once valued at $400 billion, the project was known as TerraUST, a stablecoin that was going to transform the crypto market and the way that traditional payments would be made in the future. Instead, investors watched as its market value dropped by almost 99% within 24 hours. What led to this death spiral and more importantly, what does the future hold for crypto investors?
Our special guest Omid Malekan, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, will break down the story in Episode 50 of The Great Fail.
Episode Sources
How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash
Terra Was Too Big to Fail, and It Failed: Bloomberg Crypto
TerraUSD’s collapse will take down every other algorithmic stablecoin, crypto analysts say
TerraUSD ‘stablecoin’ delisted from crypto exchanges
How $60 Billion in Terra Coins Went Up in Algorithmic Smoke
The Fall of Terra: A Timeline of the Meteoric Rise and Crash of UST and LUNA
The Terra (LUNA) Collapse: 4 Lessons To Be Learned (Opinion)
The Real Reasons Behind the Crypto Crash, and What We Can Learn from Terra’s Fall
Luna Crypto Crash: What Happened To Terra Luna?
Who is Do Kwon, the ‘lunatic’ who created a $60 billion cryptocurrency that collapsed in days?
Terra LUNA Investors Lose Everything In 98 Percent Plunge, Suicide Hotline Posted At Top Of Forum
All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now
Special Guest
Omid Malekan
Professor at Columbia Business School
Omid Malekan is the Explainer-in-Chief of blockchain technology. He’s the author of ReArchitecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets, and Platforms as well as The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School where he lectures on blockchain and crypto. An eight-year veteran of the crypto industry, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Spectator magazine, and his own blog on Medium.com. Malekan advises individuals and corporations on the intersection of the old and new.