Opinion


Opinion

DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin

CoinDesk’s story this week about a fight over a bitcoin mining facility in Upstate New York reveals how cryptocurrency issues are quickly becoming politicized in familiar ways.

Governor Ron DeSantis, who announced his presidential campaign on Twitter. (Florida State Government, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

How Crypto Can Help Secure AI

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence create unique safety challenges. Can skills and approaches honed by the crypto community help make AI safe for humanity?

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Opinion

Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?

Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those might be empty threats.

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto’s Quirky Automated Market Makers and How They Differ From TradFi Exchanges

Crypto exchanges have order books just like the NYSE, but the digital asset realm also offers something very different known as automated market makers (AMMs).

An exchange trading floor (Getty Images/modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

AI Can Generate a Trading Edge in Crypto Markets

Large language models like ChatGPT could supercharge sentiment analysis, a key aspect of trading.

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Opinion

Consensus Survey: TradFi Investors Remain Bullish on Crypto’s Long-Term Prospects

Despite the market turmoil of the last six months, investment managers say they largely plan to keep putting capital into digital assets, our survey finds.

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Opinion

Crypto's Open Source Ethos Yields Results

It’s crypto winter and a time for building, as innovative new open-source projects on Polkadot and Cosmos can attest.

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Opinion

U.S. Lawmakers Can Get Crypto Regulations Right if They Act Now

Crypto companies are being hamstrung by legislative inaction as much as an ill-advised policy of regulating by enforcement, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said.

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Opinion

Why the Biggest Emerging Markets Are Turning to Crypto

Many large countries around the world, including Pakistan and Nigeria, suffer currency turmoil. And, despite official efforts to curb crypto activity, there are signs their citizens are turning to crypto assets as a hedge, says Noelle Acheson.

Karachi, Pakistan - Nov 14, 2021: People are seen at a weekly Sunday bazaar in Bufferzone, an area of central Karachi of Sindh province in Pakistan

Opinion

Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day: the Time a Bitcoin User Bought 2 Pizzas for 10,000 BTC

Laszlo Hanyecz did not spend $270 million buying Papa Johns, CoinDesk's George Kaloudis writes.

The actual pizzas (Credit: Laszlo Hanyecz)