Noelle Acheson

Noelle Acheson is host of the CoinDesk "Markets Daily" podcast, and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. She is also former head of research at CoinDesk and sister company Genesis Trading. Follow her on Twitter at @NoelleInMadrid.

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Opinion

The Myth of ‘Regulatory Clarity’

Regulators should give crypto industry builders and market participants more choice in the rules they follow.

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Why Trading Is Essential for Crypto

If you think traders give crypto a bad name, just imagine an industry without them. This op-ed is part of CoinDesk's Trading Week.

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Opinion

Bitcoin Is Macro, but Not ‘Correlated’ in the Way You Think

We tend to use the two terms (macro and correlation) without understanding what they mean.

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How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?

Bitcoins are discovered rather than printed. Computers around the world “mine” for coins by competing with each other.

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Hard Fork vs. Soft Fork

Hard fork and soft fork events refer to the process of implementing new changes to a blockchain project's code.

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What is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

In 2016, developers Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon proposed a protocol called “the lightning network” that would enable faster and cheaper transactions while not having to change the block size.

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How to Sell Bitcoin

Whether you want to spend or hold bitcoin, at some point you’ll probably want to sell some. Here's our guide on how to sell bitcoin.

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Why Use Bitcoin?

It’s fast, it’s cheap to use, it’s private and central governments can’t take it away.

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What Are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

Find out what bitcoin mining pools are and how to join them. The same methods can be used for most cryptocurrencies.

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How To Buy Bitcoin

With bitcoin adoption continuing to rise, it’s now possible to purchase the digital asset across a wide range of exchanges, brokerages and apps.

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