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Markets

2 Tweets Make a Story: Bloomberg's Bitcoin Miami Report

The first story about COVID out of Bitcoin 2021 needed significantly more reporting than it had, and unfortunately, it drove copy-paste follow-ons instead.

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Policy

The Node: The Dawn of Bitcoin Geopolitics

Latin American leaders have faced decades of repression by the United States. Bitcoin gives them a way to fight back.

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Policy

The Node: Warren Versus the Volcano

Greening bitcoin would be a good thing in itself, and it would take away a tool of misdirection from those who oppose it for other reasons.

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Policy

Moving on From Good-Bad Crypto Dialogue

Central banks should welcome competition from crypto and the crypto industry should be less defensive, says our columnist.

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Tech

Miami Coin and Voting With Your Tokens

Patrick Stanley's new project may provide a way for people to reward and be rewarded by innovative cities.

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Finance

The Ransom-Ware

An ode to companies that poorly guard their computer systems and end up paying extortionists bitcoin to unlock them (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling).

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Tech

DeFi's Sticky Future

Innovations tend to stack. And there's nothing more stackable than composability and interoperability involving money.

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Markets

How Do You Know Crypto Is Winning? Look Where the Talent Is Going

Crypto is poaching top talent from financial and technology giants.

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Markets

Bitcoin Is Batman

Another way of looking at the philosopher Craig Warmke's conception of Bitcoin as a fictional substance.

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Markets

What $DESK Says About Scarcity, Value and Money

Pull up a $DESK, we're talking about a rewards token.

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