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Markets

The Node: Dogecoin Is a Joke, Get Over It

Save the internet intellectualizing for another day.

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Finance

Consolidations Are Coming to Crypto

Coinbase is for sure going to buy more companies. And with the success of its stock listing, other crypto companies are sure to follow and will also do what public companies do: buy things.

Companies will start coming together like Voltron into giant machines, tossing about energy swords of value and smashing lion-faced fists into traditional intermediaries and financial markets.

Markets

Examining the Split Reactions to the Coinbase Listing

“They used to be revolutionary,” one former user said.

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Markets

Crypto Is Still the Frontier for Journalism

An interview with ERC-20 co-creator Simon de la Rouviere about his new media project combining NFTs, DAOs and cryptocurrency.

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Markets

The Node: Coinbase Is the Listing to End All Listings

Coinbase is the first of many crypto startups to go public. But, as crypto continues to eat traditional finance, will those listings matter?

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Policy

The Node: Balaji's Blueprint for India

A proposal to integrate digital wallets into India's national software stack shows how crypto could go mainstream with government help.

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Tech

There's Certified Fair Trade Coffee, So How About Certified and Persistent NFTs?

As the hype dies down, the pressure is off to mint every NFT imaginable for a quick buck and the industry can turn its attention to less sexy but crucial foundational matters.

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Markets

The Node: Bitcoin, Warts and All

If mass adoption is the aim, we might as well tell the truth about what that world looks like. The whole truth.

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation at Consensus 2019

Markets

China, the Convenient Foil

Peter Thiel is both right and wrong in calling bitcoin a tool that could empower China and challenge the U.S. dollar.

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Policy

The Accidental Crypto Lobbyist

Our reporter contacts state lawmakers for clarification and ends up inadvertently reshaping a bill.

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