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Policy

Winners and Losers in the US' $1,200 Check Blitz

Wealth and age determine when and how 250 million Americans get their stimulus payments, says our columnist J.P. Koning.

Credit: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Markets

Why MakerDAO Should Consider Negative Interest Rates for Dai

To keep dai near its $1 peg, the Maker community should consider negative interest rates. The cost to users may be worth it, says columnist J. P. Koning.

Maker Foundation CEO Rune Christensen.

Markets

Zero Interest Rates Could Hamper the Stablecoin Business

Zero or negative interest rates will force stablecoins to look at their fee structures and cut costs. Only the fittest will survive, says our columnist.

Bank notes from Northern Ireland

Policy

Bitcoin's Ransomware Problem Won't Go Away

By the end of 2019, at least $128 million in bitcoin had been paid to ransomware hackers. That's not good optics for a payment system.

Cryptolocker ransomware, via Flickr/Christiaan Colen

Finance

Lightning Solves Bitcoin's Speed Problem, but Watch Out for Fraudsters

Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.

Zap founder Jack Mallers speaks at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Lessons From the First Digital Gold Boom

Long before crypto, there was digital gold. The boom of the mid-1990s has echoes for today.

JP Koning

Markets

A Central Bank Cryptocurrency? Not in 2018

Central bank digital currencies may sound like a nice idea, but blogger JP Koning argues they'll remain just that in 2018 – an idea.

Federal Reserve. Credit: Shutterstock

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