Opinion


Opinion

Why Did Celsius Go Up in Flames? Alex Mashinsky Built Celsius a House of Cards

The bankrupt crypto lender misled the public from the beginning, several federal agencies allege in new lawsuits.

Consensus 2019 Alex Mashinsky Founder and CEO Celsius Network (CoinDesk)

Finance

Setting Boundaries: Defining Active and Passive Management for Crypto

Breaking down one of the key dilemmas in crypto investing in 3 different ways. Plus: Questions spurred by the BlackRock ETF application.

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Opinion

It's Time for a Euro Stablecoin

The European Union's landmark Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulations provide much needed clarity for digital assets in Europe, setting the stage for a bloc-wide stablecoin.

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Opinion

Want a Spot Market Bitcoin ETF? Then Deal With the Consequences

Coinbase may have to feed sensitive financial information to regulators, if recent bitcoin exchange-trade fund applications are approved.

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Finance

Crypto Analysts Can Learn Something From Baseball

Searching for crypto’s future stars among young prospects.

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Finance

Can Crypto Match the Internet and Hit 5B Users?

While early growth in both spaces has been eerily similar, don’t get too excited about crypto’s future.

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Opinion

EthCC and Crypto's Latent Biases

A major Ethereum conference set for Paris is not drawing the race-tinged criticism of last year's DevCon in Bogota, Colombia.

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Opinion

The Big Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bitcoin Nothingburger

The candidate isn’t necessarily biased just because he owns BTC.

US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Opinion

Why Threads Got 100 Million Users When Other Twitter Rivals Could Not

Network effects and ease-of-use rule the day. And, a lot of people clearly don’t care about decentralization and privacy all that much, says CoinDesk’s Emily Parker.

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Opinion

What Mastodon’s Critical Bug Fixes Say About Crypto’s Security Vulnerabilities

Crypto protocols are often multi-billion dollar bug bounties, for better or worse.

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