Opinion


Finance

Washington Ignored Crypto for Now. That’s Good for Bitcoin.

A huge tax on BTC miners didn’t make it into a deal to resolve the battle, and a separate provision might actually (unintentionally) help them.

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Markets

Sell Crypto Volatility in May, and Go Away?

The recent calm in bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) should not lull market participants into a false sense of security.

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Opinion

Should Russia Bolster or Ban Bitcoin?

The country reportedly backed out of plans to build a "national crypto exchange," the latest sign of indecision.

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Opinion

Striving for the Impossible: Reasonable Crypto Debate

Debates in crypto are increasingly polarized and politicized, as a recent CoinDesk story about a controversial mining plant in New York shows.

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Opinion

Worldcoin and the Intellectual Decline of Venture Capital

Sam Altman’s spectacularly ill-conceived biometric data project just raised $115 million dollars. Digging into the deal is embarrassing for basically everyone.

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Opinion

Centralized Exchanges Are Here to Stay

While the collapse of FTX shook confidence in centralized crypto services, regulated exchanges are arguably more secure and offer users "peace of mind," DBS Digital Exchange CEO Lionel Lim writes.

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Finance

If Crypto Is the Future, Advisors Need to Embrace It Now

Amazon stock was a risky proposition in the 2000s. Crypto is arguably at a similar point.

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Opinion

DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin

CoinDesk’s story this week about a fight over a bitcoin mining facility in Upstate New York reveals how cryptocurrency issues are quickly becoming politicized in familiar ways.

Governor Ron DeSantis, who announced his presidential campaign on Twitter. (Florida State Government, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

How Crypto Can Help Secure AI

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence create unique safety challenges. Can skills and approaches honed by the crypto community help make AI safe for humanity?

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Opinion

Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?

Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those might be empty threats.

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest (Marco Bello/Getty Images)