Crypto 2022


Tech

Capitalism Misallocates Resources. Web 3 Tech Can Help

Money was on the road to nowhere before programability.

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Finance

Michael Saylor Calls Bitcoin the World’s Reserve Asset but Not So Good for Buying a Cup of Coffee

The billionaire founder of the business software company MicroStrategy said in a CoinDesk TV interview that bitcoin is the best inflation hedge.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention

Tech

The Radical Pluralism of Money

Money must not always be a unit of account, store of value and medium of exchange.

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Tech

Aligning Social and Financial Capital to Create Better Money

Would money be better if it was aligned with our reputations?

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Finance

Tim Draper on Bitcoin and the Collapse of Fiat

The billionaire scion joined CoinDesk TV to discuss the future of money.

Venture Capitalist Tim Draper (CoinDesk TV)

Tech

Money for Everything: A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized

In a fully tokenized future, everything is money. Is that a good thing?

(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoins’ Tenuous Relationships With Banks

For as much as stablecoins market themselves as a nonbank solution, they still need banks, writes Yale’s Steven Kelly for the Future of Money Week.

A safe deposit box. (Tim Evans/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

7 Wild Scenarios for the Future of Money

Here the focus is more on fun than functional, more possible than probable.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

The Downside of Programmable Money

Software bugs aren’t the half of it, says Steven Kelly of Yale in a Q&A with CoinDesk. “You can’t preprogram the exigencies of a crisis.”

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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