Opinion


Opinion

What’s the Reality of Crypto in Crime?

The DOJ's Eun Young Choi said the agency is constantly finding crypto connections in its criminal investigations. But how deep does the problem go and how much should we blame the blockchain?

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Opinion

The White House’s Bitcoin Mining Tax Undermines Itself

Imposing a levy on mining in the U.S. will send the industry overseas, increasing emissions while depriving the grid of a useful form of “demand response,” says Nic Carter.

Bitmain Antminer S19 Hydro mining rigs, the company's latest technology, installed at a Merkle Standard facility in Washington state. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Web3

Music Albums as an Asset Class

NFTs enable 6 major shifts in the music industry, which could lead to new investment opportunities for clients of financial advisors.

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Opinion

Rehypothecation May Be Common in Traditional Finance, but It Will Never Work With Bitcoin

Several crypto lenders, exchanges and funds that used customer assets to grow rapidly had a crash course in the limits of digital scarcity in 2022.

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Opinion

If Bitcoin Can’t Handle a Few JPEGs, How Can It Handle the World?

Network congestion from ordinals and BRC-20s is a stress test – and Bitcoin is failing.

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Web3

Web3 Represents a Strong Alternative to Today’s Internet

It’s a strong alternative to the current centralized internet, and there are associated crypto tokens worth examining.

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Finance

Crypto Isn’t Ready for Jack Bogle

Alex Botte of Runa Digital Assets explains why crypto isn’t ready for passive investing.

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Opinion

We Need Regulatory Clarity to Keep Crypto Exchanges Onshore and DeFi Permissionless

The lack of clear crypto regulation risks sending companies overseas. Congress must bring regulatory clarity to crypto market structure, defining the bounds and appropriate legal treatment of crypto securities, commodities, and exchanges, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp.

Cynthia Lummis, U.S. Senator, WY, U.S. Senate and Nikhilesh De, Managing Editor, Global Policy and Regulation, CoinDesk with Congressman Patrick McHenry (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Opinion

A Eulogy for a Day Trader's Exchange

Bittrex, a popular exchange during the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, offered users and the crypto industry invaluable lessons in economics and regulatory affairs.

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Opinion

There's No Such Thing as High Fees on Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s BRC-20 debate is a re-run of the 2015-17 blocksize wars, except this time some of the combatants have changed sides, says Nic Carter.

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