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Consensus Magazine

What Will 2023 Bring for CBDCs?

Even as CBDC rollouts intensify, the future of these centrally backed currencies around the world is uncertain.

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Opinion

23 Blockchain Predictions for 2023

Andrew Keys, of DARMA Capital, previews developments in zero-knowledge, Ethereum, NFTs, Filecoin, Cosmos, regulations, and much more.

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Finance

Warren’s Reactionary Crypto Policy vs. Dorsey’s Decentralized Social Media Gambit

Policy actions that decry decentralization in response to FTX sort of miss The Point.

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Opinion

2023 Will Be the Year of Dapps – Here's What to Expect

The greatest areas for decentralized application (dapp) development will be across gaming, identity and the evolution of Web2 apps.

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Opinion

2023: The Year DAOs Follow the Law?

Decentralized autonomous organizations should make the necessary handshake with the existing legal system in order to mature and integrate with the rest of the global economy.

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Consensus Magazine

The Faulty Moral Universe of Sam Bankman-Fried

The FTX CEO's legal-scholar mother believed personal responsibility was an outdated concept. Did those ideas create a monster?

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Opinion

FTX and Crypto Bust Show Capitalism’s Limits

Investors have been led astray by misleading signals from the market. It enticed them to go "all in" on centralized exchanges rather than focusing on real-world use cases for tokenized value exchange.

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Opinion

The Best Bitcoin Lightning Payment Solutions

A look at open-source and corporate point-of-sale systems from BTCPay to Confirmo, so any merchant can start accepting BTC in 2023.

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Opinion

Changpeng Zhao Won't Rescue Binance by Selling out Crypto Self-Custody

Amid a surge in withdrawals, Binance's chief executive is seemingly working to reestablish trust and keep assets on the centralized exchange. I "recommend no more news like these."

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Opinion

The Next Step in the Evolution of Web3: Regenerative Finance

“ReFi,” coined by economist John Fullerton, is the process of using markets to fix the issues markets have created. Crypto, the freest market system yet, can help bootstrap efforts to regenerate the world economy.

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