Opinion


Opinion

After FTX: Rebuilding Trust in Crypto’s Founding Mission

For an industry built on the principle of decentralization, we had a lot of trust in one 30-year-old. Understanding why is key to a more sustainable future for crypto.

AI Artwork SBM Sam Bankman-Fried (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Why Selling Some Bitcoin at a Loss Can Maximize Your Hodling Potential

How to sell your bitcoin for tax advantages without interrupting your strategy to hold for the long term.

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Opinion

NFT Art Museum Donations? The Pros and Cons for Your Tax Bill

Appraising historically significant non-fungible tokens has been a head scratcher for collectors and charities.

Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Jamison McAndie/Unsplash)

Opinion

Let’s Actually Commit to Proofs of Reserve This Time, OK?

Requiring exchanges to show they have assets to match their liabilities would improve transparency and help to win back public trust in crypto, says Nic Carter.

The collapse of crypto exchange FTX under Sam Bankman-Fried raises the issue of proofs of reserve. (CoinDesk)

Finance

All Custodial Crypto Exchanges Should Adopt Proof-of-Reserve Programs, but Even That Isn’t Enough

After last week’s FTX debacle, customers who don’t wish to take custody into their own hands should demand far better from their service providers.

The partnership aims to close ties between traditional banking and decentralized finance. (Getty Images)

Opinion

FTX's Fall Will Lift the Next Generation of Bitcoin Maximalists

There is a real distinction between crypto and bitcoin, as many have learned this week.

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Opinion

FTX Lesson: Crypto Needs the Press, the Press Needs Crypto

CoinDesk played a central role in this week’s FTX meltdown, following our coverage of Alameda Research’s suspect balance sheet last week. But the crypto industry's maturation and eventual success requires that we flesh out these unstable structures and bad practices.

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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Effective’ Altruism Blew Up FTX

The Alameda Research and FTX founder believed he had singular insight into how to fix the world's problems. Instead, he wound up exemplifying them.

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Opinion

Crypto Can Help With Elon Musk’s Twitter Identity Issue

The Blue Bird site faces a classic “Byzantine Generals” problem that Bitcoin solved.

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Opinion

FTX Showed the Problems of Centralized Finance, and Proved the Need for DeFi

The meltdown of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto trading empire could not, and would not, have happened to a decentralized and transparent protocol.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)