Cryptocurrency expert Mark Grabowski was interviewed by multiple news outlets this week about investing in Bitcoin. He offered advice on whether investors should use their Roth IRAs to trade Bitcoin and what the investing outlook was for Bitcoin.

​He told blog CreditDonkey, "While I feel pretty good about Bitcoin's prospects long-term—say a decade from now—it is a very volatile investment. Bitcoin will likely skyrocket at some point in the future but also experience a very big drawdown from that peak. The peaks and bottoms are impossible to predict, and the volatility shakes out most casual investors. So, for the average investor, I wouldn't recommend investing your retirement funds in Bitcoin unless you're willing to put the money in and not look at the price for a few years."

​Grabowski was also discussed the recent cryptocurrency market crash withRussian news outlet Sputnik News. "I don’t think the Google of cryptocurrency exists yet. But eventually the prices will get so low that the upside becomes too large for greed not to take over. Rinse and repeat. The next Bitcoin halving is in April 2024, so I think the market will start heating up again around then or soon after," he said.

Grabowski is an associate professor at Adelphi University in New York, where he teaches a course on cryptocurrency and blockchain. He is author of Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money. He also received a 2020 Fulbright Fellowship to research cryptocurrency regulations in Asia and founded his own cryptocurrency project, FreeSpeech.Finance.

Mark Grabowski was quoted in a news story on the history of cryptocurrency. The piece appeared in the blog TechStory.

Grabowski wrote a chapter detailing cryptocurrency's history in his 2019 book, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money.

He also created a short documentary on the topic that's received nearly 30,000 views on YouTube:

With TikTok's ties to China under scrutiny once again as President Biden weighs new rules for foreign apps, Mark Grabowski weighed in on the issue in a recent media interview.

“It is stunning that it’s taken so long for the Biden Administration to conclude TikTok is a national security threat,” he told NTD. “President Trump tried to address this problem, but unfortunately Biden was determined to immediately reverse everything Trump did — whether it made sense or not.”

Grabowski, a professor who specializes in cyber law and ethics, said: "TikTok is Chinese government malware masquerading as a social media app. [It] will go down as the most successful data harvesting of Americans ever done by a foreign adversary."

Read Grabowski's full comments by clicking here.

Iran's Tahlil Bazaar news agency interviewed Mark Grabowski about blockchain, which is an online database technology developed by cryptocurrencies that's now used in many industries.

Grabowski discussed the outlook for blockchain adoption in 2022 along with the benefits and challenges of integrating the technology in the workplace.

"Many big organizations are already utilizing blockchain in some capacity ... I think we’ll continue to see more adoption. COVID-19 has created a number of problems involving health safety, supply chain shortages and scams that blockchain could potentially solve," said Grabowski, who teaches a university course and wrote a book on blockchain.

But, he added that many obstacles exist in widespread blockchain adoption. "First of all, blockchain technology is complex ... Second, blockchain is still a nascent technology ... Finally, cost is a deterrent."

​Read the full interview by clicking here.

With Major League Baseball teams and players currently at an impasse over a new collective bargaining agreement, mediation is being proposed to help both sides resolve their dispute.

Major League Baseball pointed to Mark Grabowski's research on the high success rate of mediation in pro sports. In 2014, Grabowski published an article in the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law that advocated for pro sports teams utilizing mediation to resolve contract disputes.

​The law journal article was cited by MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball. It was also mentioned in a Washington Nationals blog and in an article on OnlineGambling.com.

Grabowski, a lawyer and professor, originally wrote the article as a paper for a mediation class he took while attending Georgetown University Law Center.

Mark Grabowski discussed the impact of other cryptocurrencies on Bitcoin's price with the International Business Times.

"I think, ultimately, altcoins help Bitcoin's value," he said. "Investing in cryptocurrency is a bit like dating. With thousands of alternative cryptocurrencies, it can be overwhelming trying to sort through them and choose which is best. Bitcoin is a reliable option that you can always depend on to be there. That may seem boring but, after dealing with enough bad altcoins, investors really grow to appreciate bitcoin and go running back to it."

Grabowski is frequently quoted in the media on Bitcoin. In addition to teaching a course on "Bitcoin & Blockchain," he founded a cryptocurrency and wrote a popular book on cryptocurrencies. Earlier in the week, he published an op-ed on misconceptions about Bitcoin's politics.

Newsday, one of the 10-largest newspapers in America, published a story profiling Mark Grabowski and his new cryptocurrency.

FreeSpeech.Finance, known also by its ticker SPEECH, is a so-called "meme coin" that donates its revenues to organizations that defend free speech rights.

SPEECH was launched on Halloween this year in homage to Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious figure who introduced the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin on Halloween in 2008. It's available on the decentralized exchange PancakeSwap. A 5% transaction fee is collected and donated to free speech causes. 

So far, the crypto has made donations The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a non-profit and non-partisan organization in the U.S. that defends students’ and faculty’s free speech at colleges and universities, and Reclaim The Net, an e-newsletter covering online censorship around the world.

Grabowski, a journalist-turned-lawyer-turned-professor, hopes to capitalize on the growing popularity of cryptocurrency to promote free speech. Meme coins, in particular, have become all the rage of the cryptocurrency market lately, making investors wealthy and providing fodder for Elon Musk tweets and Saturday Night Live skits.

“With big tech and governments increasingly censoring internet users’ expression worldwide, fighting for our fundamental right to free speech has never been more important. And what better way to support that effort than through cryptocurrency, which was designed to be pseudonymous and censorship-resistant,” Grabowski said. “FreeSpeech.Finance will literally finance free speech. We believe this project exemplifies the vision of the early cypherpunks, including Satoshi Nakamoto.”

Mark Grabowski was interviewed by Iran's Tahlil Bazaar news agency on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and blockchain. He discussed economic benefits and regulations.

Grabowski has extensive experience in the crypto space, having authored a popular cryptocurrency book, taught a class on Bitcoin & Blockchain and founded his own cryptocurrency. In addition, he was awarded a 2020 Fulbright Fellowship to research cryptocurrency regulations in Asia.

Read the full interview by clicking here.

Mark Grabowski's book, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money, is ranked as the #1 blockchain book by BookAuthority.

The 112-page book, published by Routledge in 2019, provides an introduction to Bitcoin and blockchain. Although the book focuses on investment strategies, it also examines cryptocurrency’s history and philosophy along with its promise and dangers. 

With Bitcoin's price soaring in 2021, cryptocurrency has become a hot topic and sales of Grabowski's book are taking off. The book briefly cracked Amazon’s Top 50 bestseller list for books on money and currently ranks in the Top 30 for banking books and Top 25 for accounting books.

In addition to teaching a course on Bitcoin & Blockchain, Grabowski founded his own cryptocurrency and won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2020 to study cryptocurrency regulations in Asia.

Mark Grabowski co-authored a textbook, Cyber Law and Ethics: Regulation of the Connected World, which was published by London-based academic publisher Routledge in July.

The book, which Grabowski uses in the Cyber Law & Ethics course he teaches, provides an overview of legal, policy and ethical issues raised by our use of cyberspace and information technology. Some of the topics addressed include social media, online privacy, artificial intelligence, cybercrime, intellectual property, online gaming and internet governance. The book also covers trending issues such as deplatforming, catfishing, doxing, ransomware, revenge porn, data mining, drones, cybernetics and disinformation.  

“With a growing list of varied colleges now offering undergraduate courses devoted to this topic, we believe this book fills an important void in the field of study,” Grabowski told tech blog InnovateLI. “Legal issues relating to cyberspace and technology are becoming more and more important to everyday people as the world becomes more connected.”

The book has received rave reviews so far. It's listed among the "Best New Technology Books" by BookAuthority.

Kyu Ho Youm, Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at University of Oregon, also gave a positive review of the book: “Searching for a timely and comprehensive book on cyber law? If so, Cyber Law & Ethics should be for you. For this book is for anyone interested in all the major legal and ethical cyber issues, including freedom of online speech, privacy, IP and gaming. Also covered are a number of evolving and emerging topics such as AI, cyborgs and drones. Although it centers on U.S. law, the book is refreshingly global. Mark Grabowski and Eric Robinson pay discerning attention to international and comparative law. What a remarkable contribution to understanding cyber law.”