Opinion


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Want a Spot Market Bitcoin ETF? Then Deal With the Consequences

Coinbase may have to feed sensitive financial information to regulators, if recent bitcoin exchange-trade fund applications are approved.

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Финансы

Crypto Analysts Can Learn Something From Baseball

Searching for crypto’s future stars among young prospects.

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Финансы

Can Crypto Match the Internet and Hit 5B Users?

While early growth in both spaces has been eerily similar, don’t get too excited about crypto’s future.

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EthCC and Crypto's Latent Biases

A major Ethereum conference set for Paris is not drawing the race-tinged criticism of last year's DevCon in Bogota, Colombia.

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Мнение

The Big Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bitcoin Nothingburger

The candidate isn’t necessarily biased just because he owns BTC.

US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

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Why Threads Got 100 Million Users When Other Twitter Rivals Could Not

Network effects and ease-of-use rule the day. And, a lot of people clearly don’t care about decentralization and privacy all that much, says CoinDesk’s Emily Parker.

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What Mastodon’s Critical Bug Fixes Say About Crypto’s Security Vulnerabilities

Crypto protocols are often multi-billion dollar bug bounties, for better or worse.

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CoinDesk Market Index Q2 Review: Quiet Appreciation, Regulatory Uncertainty

On the positive side, the SEC started approving crypto ETF products, buoying markets for bitcoin and ether. On the other: major crypto exchanges were sued by regulators, increasing regulatory uncertainty around the sector.

DACS sector performance Q2 2023 (CoinDesk Indices)

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Why Edinburgh Is Zumo's Crypto Hub

A conversation with Nick Jones, the co-founder and CEO of digital-assets infrastructure platform Zumo, on how being accepted to a blockchain accelerator and COVID-19 workplace changes influenced their choice to establish and remain in Scotland.

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The Real Use Case for CBDCs: Dethroning the Dollar

Central bank digital currencies will revolutionize how companies settle international trade and reduce the need for greenbacks in the world economy, says Michael Casey.

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