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Crypto Long & Short

Finance

Philosophically, It Doesn’t Matter Whether Cryptos Are Securities; Practically, It Does

When a main U.S. regulatory body defers to Crypto Twitter for leads on securities law violations, you know these categories are subjective.

A Fouke Fur Company stock certificate for 100 shares. (Wikimedia, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Accounting Rules Make the Outcome of Tesla’s Bitcoin Sale Unclear

After the car maker sold 75% of its bitcoin, Twitter piled on the company for losing money on the sale even though it didn’t.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Bitcoin’s Up, Gold’s Down, the Euro Is Dragging – and It’s All Inexorably Tied

Bitcoin the inflation hedge; the prodigal child returns.

(Mike Kemp/Tetra Images/Getty)

Markets

Crypto Is Trying Out Traditional Finance’s Failures in Hyperspeed, but It’s Going to Be Fine

What is going to be most interesting here is seeing what happens to bitcoin and other cryptos during these Hard Times.

Panic on Wall Street, Oct. 24, 1929. (Associated Press/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Hard Times in Crypto: the Unintended Consequences of Going Public

The third and final reflection on a series of risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.

(Aditya Vyas/Unsplash)

Markets

Opaque Platforms and Intertwined Protocols Pose Big Risk to Crypto

Second article in a series about risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.

Interdependent protocols and black-box platforms make for a dicey pairing. (Edge2Edge Media/Unsplash)

Markets

Hard Times in Crypto Lead to Price and Macro Risk

Just the first in a series of risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.

(Adam Smigielski/E+/Getty Images)

Finance

Texas Feels Like Bitcoin Country (Maybe Because I Was There for a Bitcoin Conference)

A Bitcoin developer conference last week put three important Bitcoin themes in focus: lightning, design and education.

Dusty, a Bitcoin developer, presents Lightning Network splicing which will allow payment channels to easily fluctuate in size. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Might, in Fact, Be the Great ‘Equalizer’

A new global survey drills in on the perception of Bitcoin around the world, and the findings appear to be generally optimistic for global equity.

(Aziz Acharki/Unsplash)