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Finance

Garry Kasparov: 'Bitcoin Will Remain as a Standard'

The chess grandmaster, a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus festival in June, expects a basket of coins to replace the dollar within a decade.

(Garry Kasparov, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk

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‘People Will Get Burned’: Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy

Privacy advocate and hardcore bitcoiner Matt Odell discusses CoinJoins, privacy coins and “canaries.”

(Majid Gheidarlou/Unsplash)

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‘How Can Information Be Free but Expensive?’: Holly Herndon on Web 3, Art and the Future of IP

Artists Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Dan Keller discuss where they see Web 3 taking culture, why weirdos thrive in a Web 3 world, and what makes Berlin a nexus for art and technology.

From left: Mat Dryhurst, the author, Holly Herndon and Dan Keller at ETHDenver (photographer unknown)

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Aaron Lammer’s Advice for Making It in Crypto: Just Do Something

After writing songs for Drake and the Kardashians and hosting a podcast about QuadrigaCX, Aaron Lammer joined quant crypto trading firm Radkl. It’s not as big a stretch as you might think.

Aaron Lammer (Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg/Getty)

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Meet the Man Behind Associated Press' Crypto Strategy

Dwayne Desaulniers is running the news agency's increasingly ambitious blockchain experiments – from NFTs to Chainlink nodes.

(Dwayne Desaulniers/CoinDesk TV)

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Garry Kasparov: Crypto Means Freedom

The chess grandmaster expects a basket of coins to replace the dollar within a decade.

Garry Kasparov (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Rapper Latashá on NFTs and Inclusivity in Tech

The way the hip-hop artist and Zora community manager sees it, NFTs’ benefits are well worth the gas fees.

(Latasha/Latasha)

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Neil Strauss Pens the Bored Ape Yacht Club ‘Tell-All’

What does it mean to write a memoir about a group of NFT avatars that kind of exists but kind of doesn’t? The author of “Pickup Artists” (and nine other books) tells Jeff Wilser. This article is part of CoinDesk Culture Week.

Artist's rendition of a Bored Ape NFT. (Adam Levine/CoinDesk)

Markets

He Saw Iceland’s Banking Fraud From Inside. Now He’s Worried About Crypto

“I think we’re living on a sand castle financial system,” says former banker and fraud investigator Jared Bibler.

"Iceland's Secret" author and financial fraud investigator Jared Bibler. (Harriman House)

Policy

A Crypto Whisperer on How Regulators Toss Retail Into the Deep End

Industry commentator Maya Zehavi shares her views on capital controls, overregulation and crypto’s broken promises.

(Joe Calata/Unsplash)

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