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Opinion

Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Won’t Stop Money Laundering, but It Could Ban Crypto

The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Roger Marshall are pushing through Congress is the legislative equivalent of a Trojan Horse, writes John Rizzo. It would effectively ban crypto in the guise of fighting money laundering.

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Consensus Magazine

The Blocksize Wars Revisited: How Bitcoin’s Civil War Still Resonates Today

Today’s debates over non-monetary uses of Bitcoin like ordinals and BRC-20 tokens echo the battle between Big and Small Blockers between 2015 and 2017. This article, by Daniel Kuhn, is part of our “CoinDesk Turns 10” series.

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Opinion

Regulators Should Not 'Front-Run' Congress on Stablecoins

The House has made it clear that passing a stablecoin bill is a top priority. Regulators – like the SEC – shouldn’t get ahead of the legislative process, say Bain Capital’s Tuongvy Le and Khurram Dara.

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Markets

The Risks and Rewards of High-Frequency Crypto Trading

High-frequency trading can be lucrative in newer markets like crypto, but HFT is not without its unique risks.

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Markets

Ethereum Staking Needs Its (Honest) LIBOR

A standardized ETH staking benchmark could unleash a new generation of financial products that appeal to TradFi.

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Opinion

What Does the Debt Limit Showdown Mean for Bitcoin?

A U.S. debt default could catapult the cryptocurrency onto the international stage.

Political theatrics over the internecine debt ceiling debate on the U.S. Capitol Hill risks the international economy. Bitcoin could ascend as a global reserve and trade asset if the U.S. dollar loses status. (Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York/U.S. Library of Congress)

Opinion

Tokenization Is the Way to Realize Biden’s Electric Vehicle Overhaul

As the Administration looks to re-shore and clean up the EV industry, blockchain technology offers a means to ensure transparency, says Qichao Hu of the Li-Metal EV battery manufacturer.

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Opinion

As Bitcoin Scales, We Need Better Custodial Solutions

If Bitcoin is going to scale through layer 2s, then we need more options and more clarity around the trade-offs between the different ways to use the cryptocurrency.

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Tech

Frogs, Fevers and Fees: Bitcoin’s New Governance Challenge

The creation of Bitcoin-based meme coins using the new BRC-20 standard has driven up Bitcoin fees as they use more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction. But while some developers in the Bitcoin community are proposing a filter to block Bitcoin NFT projects, such censorship could run counter to Bitcoin's open-source characteristics, CoinDesk's chief content officer Michael Casey argues.

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Opinion

Sam Bankman-Fried's Ties to George Santos Are Just the Beginning

Donations to the lying congressman were just a grace note in FTX's symphony of alleged corruption.

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