Frances Coppola

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Opinion

What Now for Crypto Banking?

Regulators are leery of traditional banks offering services to crypto companies, and wary of specialist crypto banks, like Custodia, with new business models. Frances Coppola asks: Where do we go from here?

Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long (CoinDesk TV)

Opinion

After FTX: Explaining the Difference Between Liquidity and Insolvency

Did FTX fall because of a “liquidity crisis” or a “run on the bank,” or was it insolvency? The language matters.

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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

Crypto’s 1907 Moment

Financial stability ultimately depends on the trustworthiness of people, not the reliability of technology.

New York, 1907 (New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

Banks Aren’t Going to 'HODL' Bitcoin

New proposals from the Bank for International Settlements are unlikely to lead banks to hold bitcoin. But they could open the door to CBDCs, says our columnist.

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Opinion

Why This Crypto Crash Is Different

There can be no return to the highly leveraged, fractionally reserved cryptocurrency system whose illusory riches are now giving way to real losses, says our columnist.

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Opinion

No, the UK Is Not Going to Make USDC and USDT Legal Tender

For “legalize” read “regulate.”

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Opinion

Why Stablecoin Interest Rates Are So Damn High

Or, why Jeremy Allaire can't stop printing.

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Policy

The SEC to Coinbase: Crypto Banking Is Still Banking

Coinbase is not the first would-be crypto lender to run into trouble for trying to act like a bank, says our columnist.

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Policy

Regulating Stablecoins for What They Are

Stablecoins redefine the nature of money. Stop trying to regulate them as if they are nothing new.

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