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Opinion

Mt. Gox: What We Still Don’t Know 10 Years After the Collapse

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collapse of bitcoin exchange MtGox, Mark Hunter, author of “Ultimate Catastrophe: How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly Killed Bitcoin,” tackles the questions that still remain unanswered ten years later.

(Mark Karpeles, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Stablecoins: Roman Coins or Spanish Doubloons for the Modern Era

Borderless by design, these modern digital tokens can make cross-border commerce much cheaper and easier.

Roman coins (Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

3 Giga-Brained Ideas From Consensus Day 2

Crypto shows that ideas can be valuable, even if they’re not useful … yet.

Consensus 2023 Highlights

Layer 2

Who You Really Are: A Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus

The internet phenomenon and historian explains why true anonymity is hard within internet culture.

Katherine Dee, aka, Default Friend speaks at Consensus 2022 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Volatility Ruled Crypto Markets in 2021, From $69K Bitcoin to Elon Musk’s ‘Dogecoin to the Moooonn’

NFTs exploded, Coinbase stock went public, El Salvador bought the dip and China cracked down on bitcoin miners, while Solana’s SOL tokens and Polygon’s MATIC shot up by multiples of 90 or more. Here’s how crypto traders played it.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

South China Morning Post to Mint Historical Records as NFTs

The SCMP introduced its ARTIFACT standard for recording historical accounts and assets on the blockchain as NFTs.

SCMP Newspapers As China Presses Alibaba to Sell Media Assets

Markets

Nobody Saw Inflation Coming in the 1960s, but It Could Be Back: Economist

Very few of today's bond portfolio managers and traders can remember the last inflation shock, but that does not make a new shock less likely.


Markets

A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein

One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.

Breakdown Jacob Goldstein Planet Money 11-3-20

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