Jill Carlson

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Markets

GameStop and the Real Market Manipulators

WallStreetBets traders coordinated buying of GameStop stock to squeeze short-selling hedge funds – but was that collusion?

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Policy

Experiments in Crypto’s Governance Lab

Governance is one of the least appreciated fields of innovation in crypto and this year we saw exciting new ideas emerge.

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Finance

Bitcoin’s Price Is a Poor Proxy for Its Utility

Bitcoin has found adoption this year as digital gold. The other promises of cryptocurrency have yet to find fruition, says our columnist.

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Finance

Crypto and Fintech Share Goals: They Should Talk

The missions of programmable money and autonomous finance overlap, so it's surprising people from crypto and fintech don't collaborate more.

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Finance

Reading Between the Lines of Brian Armstrong's Mission Memo

Brian Armstrong's apolitical stance speaks to an unhealthy Silicon Valley culture where debate is shut down and substantive conversations happen underground.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Policy

How the Crypto Industry Seesaws Between Assets and Infrastructure

Bitcoin invented a new asset as well as new infrastructure. Often, we confuse the two roles it plays.

Morris Dancers on a seesaw in the Cotswolds, U.K.

Markets

What Today's Robinhood Rally Has in Common With the Last Crypto Boom

The pandemic's "Robinhood Rally" has echoes of the 2017 crypto boom and could presage new investment trends in digital asset and traditional markets.

Robinhood has been a retail trading darling of the pandemic era.

Policy

Free Speech vs. Cancel Culture: Reasons for Optimism

From social media to controversial statues, the free speech debate is more alive than ever. New tech can help safeguard history while letting us live our values.

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Markets

Tearing Down Monuments Isn't Censorship – It's Speech

Removing monuments to fit the values of the day is not censorship. It is an act of speech in and of itself, says our columnist.

Plinth for what used to be Edward Colston's statue, Bristol, the U.K. (Caitlin Hobbs/Wikimedia)

Finance

What Goldman Gets Wrong About Bitcoin (From Someone Who Used to Work There)

Goldman's bitcoin research is wrong in key respects. But, as with J.K Rowling, the fault may lie with bitcoiners for not communicating clearly, says an ex-GS staffer.

Goldman Sachs office, Jersey City, N.J. (Credit: Akshay Sadarangani/Unsplash)

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