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Opinion

The Best Bitcoin Lightning Payment Solutions

A look at open-source and corporate point-of-sale systems from BTCPay to Confirmo, so any merchant can start accepting BTC in 2023.

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Opinion

Changpeng Zhao Won't Rescue Binance by Selling out Crypto Self-Custody

Amid a surge in withdrawals, Binance's chief executive is seemingly working to reestablish trust and keep assets on the centralized exchange. I "recommend no more news like these."

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Opinion

The Next Step in the Evolution of Web3: Regenerative Finance

“ReFi,” coined by economist John Fullerton, is the process of using markets to fix the issues markets have created. Crypto, the freest market system yet, can help bootstrap efforts to regenerate the world economy.

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Opinion

The Art World Underestimates the Power of NFTs

NFTs will bring about a profound structural shift in how art is created, enjoyed and sold.

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Opinion

Self-Custodial Onboarding Will Be the Norm in Web3's 2023

By making sure users have self-custodial options easily available within their own services, Web3 projects can help the industry rise to safer standards.

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Markets

The FTX Meltdown Calls for Higher Standards in Crypto Journalism

Revelations that Bankman-Fried secretly funded crypto news publisher The Block deepened mistrust of the crypto industry.

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Opinion

After FTX: Explaining the Difference Between Liquidity and Insolvency

Did FTX fall because of a “liquidity crisis” or a “run on the bank,” or was it insolvency? The language matters.

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Opinion

After FTX, Let's Get Back to Hiring Crypto People for the Job

You got into crypto for the money. We got in for the system design. We are not the same, says Jenna Pilgrim.

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Opinion

Understanding the Charges Brought Against Sam Bankman-Fried

The SEC, CFTC and DOJ treat the FTX founder as an ambitious and calculating criminal.

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Opinion

The Year Crypto Yields Blew Up

Centralized interest-bearing accounts stayed artificially high after DeFi yields programmatically went dry. Crypto can be competitive with TradFi, but it needs to remain transparent and composable.

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