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ShapeShift, DAOs and the Future of Work

The ShapeShift exchange recently became a decentralized autonomous organization, and DAOs are common in DeFi. Are they the startups of the future?

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Ranking the Currencies That Could Unseat the Dollar

The dollar's share of global reserves has declined steadily for years. Will the euro, yuan or bitcoin take its place at the center of global finance?

Durante medio siglo, Estados Unidos pudo convertir al dólar en la base de un sistema mundial de tipos de cambio. Ahora, China quiere hacer lo mismo.

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Strike's Jack Mallers on Fixing the Fiat Problem

Jack Mallers discusses Bitcoin, El Salvador and how Strike can capture the power of open networks to spread further than fintech.

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China's Bitcoin Mining Crackdown Is a Boon for Miners Elsewhere

Miners outside of China are getting a financial boost from their competition’s forced exile. Will the trend continue?

Warehouses storing bitcoin mining machines stand at a mining facility operated by Bitmain Technologies Ltd. in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.

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Understanding the Meme Stock Barbarians at Wall Street's Gates

Social trading and meme stocks are the inevitable future. Who are the people driving this trend and what do they want?

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DAOs Prepare for the Next Crypto Winter With Treasury Diversification

DeFi projects are selling off governance tokens to get ready for tougher days ahead.

Decentralized autonomous organizations have been changing the asset mix of their treasuries.

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Consensus 2021: 6 Questions for Gartner's Avivah Litan

Avivah Litan, a distinguished analyst at Gartner Research, meets Dan Kuhn to discuss how enterprises can (and won't) use blockchain tech.

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Book Excerpt: Bobby Lee's Bitcoin Awakening

It's 2011. After a series of typical tech jobs, Bobby Lee decides to launch BTCChina, China's first Bitcoin exchange. It would be a wild ride.

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Consensus 2021: Bitcoin and the Space Race

From funding exploration to satellite-based bitcoin mining, the worlds of space and blockchain technology have many overlaps.

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DeFi Is Now a $100B Sector

...by at least two measures, that is. Decentralized finance users probably top 1 million.

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