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Blockchain Bridges Keep Getting Attacked. Here's How to Prevent It

Crypto bridges are soft targets providing some of crypto's largest exploits this year.

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Against CBDCs and the Politicization of Money

No one should understate the threat CBDCs pose to individual sovereignty, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Paul H. Jossey writes.

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Bitcoin Is Macro, but Not ‘Correlated’ in the Way You Think

We tend to use the two terms (macro and correlation) without understanding what they mean.

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Why Did Crypto Surge After Bad Inflation News?

Thursday’s ludicrous price action across asset markets shows just how weird things can get when the Federal Reserve is driving the bus.

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Ugly Bargains Between Banks and Regulators Are Rearing Their Head Again

The "know your customer" and anti-money laundering system imposes constraints on financial access and inhibits liberty and privacy, even though the original security intent was reasonable.

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JPMorgan Closed Kanye’s Account. Yes, There’s a Crypto Angle

“Financial censorship” proves crypto’s point, and pushes us towards a world where people are more individualistic and self-reliant.

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Investors Wanting to Outsource Crypto Portfolio Management Have Options

Crypto investing is complex, but professional crypto portfolio managers can help.

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What Credit Suisse and Three Arrows Capital Have in Common

One of the world’s most embarrassingly bad banks is tanking – and some of its biggest missteps will look all too familiar to crypto financiers.

Credit Suisse is the latest banking giant to flirt with crypto. (Cayambe/Wikimedia Commons)

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Reversibility on Ethereum: The Benefits and Pitfalls

The equivalent of “chargebacks” on Ethereum would be controversial but would ultimately help the blockchain to become more useful.

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Bitcoin: Breaking Up Money and State

Bitcoin will gradually force governments to give up control over money, in what would be the largest cultural-political shift since the separation of church and state.

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