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The FTX Meltdown Calls for Higher Standards in Crypto Journalism

Revelations that Bankman-Fried secretly funded crypto news publisher The Block deepened mistrust of the crypto industry.

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After FTX: Explaining the Difference Between Liquidity and Insolvency

Did FTX fall because of a “liquidity crisis” or a “run on the bank,” or was it insolvency? The language matters.

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After FTX, Let's Get Back to Hiring Crypto People for the Job

You got into crypto for the money. We got in for the system design. We are not the same, says Jenna Pilgrim.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Understanding the Charges Brought Against Sam Bankman-Fried

The SEC, CFTC and DOJ treat the FTX founder as an ambitious and calculating criminal.

FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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The Year Crypto Yields Blew Up

Centralized interest-bearing accounts stayed artificially high after DeFi yields programmatically went dry. Crypto can be competitive with TradFi, but it needs to remain transparent and composable.

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I, Trading Bot

Algorithms are being unleashed on the crypto markets.

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2023: The Year Blockchain Becomes a Sustainability Solution

Blockchain's role in helping the environment can go far beyond energy footprints and carbon credits.

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Starlink, Verizon 5G and Crypto: What the New ‘War of the Currents’ Means for Decentralization

A modern-day “War of the Currents” is silently unfolding across blockchain, broadband, existing power lines and even outer space.

Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899. (Getty Images)

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Blockchain vs. Crypto: Not What It Seems

“Blockchain not bitcoin” emerged in 2018 as an attempt by enterprise projects to capitalize on the market’s performance woes – the new version does the same but swaps in “crypto” to reflect the ecosystem’s spread.

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Japan Was the Safest Place to Be an FTX Customer

As regulators look to regulate exchanges in light of the FTX's collapse, they would do well to look to Japan, which has some of the most mature rules in the world.

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