Opinion


Consensus Magazine

Introducing Consensus Magazine: Putting Web3 in Perspective

Magazines are powerful when they spark dialogue about what’s happening now and could happen in the future. That’s Consensus all over, so we’re renaming Layer 2 after CoinDesk’s annual event.

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

A European Central Bank Blog Decries the End of Bitcoin, and We Aren’t Buying It

Plus: What happens when you go from bitcoin-only to … not?

Another day, another bitcoin doomsayer (DALL-E, CoinDesk)

Opinion

Sam Bankman-Fried's Self-Incrimination Tour

The disgraced man-child’s media apology tour may sway the underinformed. But it can only hurt Bankman-Fried where it counts – in the courtroom.

Sam Bankman-Fried sticking his tongue out while at Crypto Bahamas earlier this year. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Brands Will Save Crypto? Be Careful What You Wish For

Legacy platforms and mega-companies are helping usher blockchain frameworks into the mainstream, but we must deliberately build systems over which those corporate machines can’t exert control.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Markets

There’s Still Investment Opportunity After the Fall of FTX

Those undaunted by the contagion could potentially take advantage of steep discounts in funds, options/futures, crypto stocks - and yes, tokens.

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Opinion

FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident

Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times, CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Opinion

What a Securities Lawyer Would Ask FTX’s Bankman-Fried

New York Times columnist Aaron Ross Sorkin will interview Sam Bankman-Fried at the DealBook Summit. Here are 10 questions a practiced fraud lawyer would ask the former chief executive.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Opinion

A Self-Regulatory Organization Is the Best Way to Advance Crypto While Protecting the Public

The financial industry, collectively, has greater domain expertise than can be expected of regulators. This reality invites transparent, fully accountable, self-regulation.

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Opinion

Why Do Crypto Lenders Keep Blowing Up?

Liquidity issues at BlockFi, Genesis, Celsius and other lending firms have tarnished this once-promising growth sector. But not all crypto lenders are created equal.

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Opinion

The Bitcoin Obituary Obituary

And why one Harvard economist thinks bitcoin could end up on central bank balance sheets.

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