Opinion


Policy

Money Reimagined: The Power of Community

Bitcoin's big Florida meetup and CoinDesk's own $DESK project demonstrate a crypto truth: Community precedes technology when creating money.

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Tech

DeFi's Sticky Future

Innovations tend to stack. And there's nothing more stackable than composability and interoperability involving money.

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Markets

How Do You Know Crypto Is Winning? Look Where the Talent Is Going

Crypto is poaching top talent from financial and technology giants.

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Policy

The Lesson of Bitconnect: Promoters Can Be Liable

The SEC has filed charges against five promoters of the alleged crypto fraud. It's a chance to learn from the mistakes of Trevon James and Co.

Carlos Matos promoting Bitconnect

Markets

Bitcoin Is Batman

Another way of looking at the philosopher Craig Warmke's conception of Bitcoin as a fictional substance.

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Finance

Black Wall Street 3.0

A new crypto wallet, named for a Tulsa neighborhood destroyed by fire 100 years ago, shows how communities of color can build wealth.

Aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., on June 1921.

Markets

Disruption in Tether's Value Could Be Crypto Equivalent of 'Breaking the Buck': Former CFTC Chairman

Timothy Massad compared the hypothetical occurrence to the collapse in NAV of the Reserve Primary Fund in September 2008.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC

Policy

Has COVID-19 Made Biden’s Big Spending the New Normal?

The pandemic has made Americans increasingly open to getting help from the government. The Biden budget aims to make the most of those feelings.

U.S. President Joe Biden

Policy

Money Reimagined: Crypto Winter Again? Time to Regroup

With bitcoin's environmental issues affecting its price and adoption, the community needs to reach across boundaries to develop sustainable solutions, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Markets

What $DESK Says About Scarcity, Value and Money

Pull up a $DESK, we're talking about a rewards token.

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