About this newsletter
Longtime crypto reporter shows his hand.
Front Stage Exit is my reported opinion newsletter, using cryptocurrency as a way into what’s coming. Not what should be coming or could be coming, but what actually is. It’s written for those who don’t showboat their values and lean into the feeling that the world is shifting fast.
I’ve been covering the space to some extent since 2015. I went full-time in 2017. I’ve made some good calls. So. Stick around.
The gameplan:
One reported essay every Tuesday.
Backstage Pass, every Friday, in which we skewer the week on-chain.
The podcast, Diamond Rhino, every Sunday, with an explainer and a warm take.
On cryptocurrency
This newsletter won’t be entirely about digital assets,1 but we’ll never quit coming back to it. Cryptocurrency is a particularly apt thread for this moment of an emergent new perspective however, because if cryptocurrency offers nothing else, it offers exit.
In my estimation, cryptocurrency coverage falls into roughly three buckets.
Touts. These are the newsletters that claim to giv…