Opinion


Markets

Two Reasons Crypto's Bull Market Is Coming

Capital from dying token projects and an inflationary environment provide conditions for crypto's march towards a $1 trillion market cap.

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Markets

Five Years In, DeFi Now Defines Ethereum

Ethereum has always struggled with explaining itself to the world. With DeFi, it's found not only a new avenue of development but of self-definition.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Let’s Be Privacy Scolds

Technical solutions to protect financial privacy may not suffice. Stronger cultural norms around minding one’s own business are needed as well.

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Finance

Social Media Companies Are 'Too Big to Fail'

Social media firms are quickly becoming as important to the economy, finance and real life as Wall Street titans. TBTF companies demand special attention.

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Policy

Central Banks Are Privacy Providers of Last Resort

If central banks issue digital currencies, they'll be thrown into a debate about financial privacy in the modern era. Is that what they want?

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Tech

To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments

Online censorship and surveillance will persist as long as local fiat currencies are the only way to pay for telecommunication services.

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Tech

Why Bitcoin Is Protected by the First Amendment

Bitcoin's role as a communications and associative network - not just a financial network - means it deserves constitutional protection.

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Policy

Why Bitcoin-Like Scarcity Would Be a Disaster for the Dollar

Calls to restrict the Fed's money printing powers fail to recognize the likely consequences, including price instability.

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Finance

How Millennials Are Shaping the Future of Money

The desire for autonomy, self-sufficiency and personalization is driving innovation in personal finance, including the shift to crypto.

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Policy

From Enron to Wirecard: How Blockchain Tech Could Have Helped

If blockchain technology is used within a regulated financial system, Wirecard-esque scandals can be a thing of the past, writes BRD CEO Adam Traidman.

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