Opinion


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Bitcoin Should Change ... Slowly

Reconsidering the first cryptocurrency's slow-and-steady approach to development, as Ethereum's "Merge" nears.

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Bitcoiners Owe Andrew Ross Sorkin a Big Thank You

By successfully campaigning to further politicize the payments system, The New York Times columnist just made value-neutral cryptocurrency networks more valuable in the long term.

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at CoinDesk's Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)

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There’s No Future for DeFi Without Regulation

America’s first experiment with DeFi didn’t end well and the second one is going badly, too. Can we learn the lessons of history to make the third try a success?

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A Stable Asset to Law Enforcement

Far from facilitating crime, stablecoins like tether and USDC are increasingly useful for fighting it, says a leading white collar investigations lawyer.

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A Currency Crisis Looms: We Need a New Model

Geopolitical issues and rising U.S. interest rates are boosting the dollar and threatening emerging-market currencies. It's time for change.

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Brian Armstrong's Finest Hour: Backing Tornado Cash Suit Against Treasury

Coinbase could be putting itself at risk by suing the federal government over its sanction of the privacy-preserving Tornado Cash protocol.

Brian Armstrong Chief Executive Officer CEO & Co-Founder of Coinbase speaks at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

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What Post-Roe America Tells Us About the Need for Privacy, Web3

Control over our online data is intimately linked with bodily autonomy.

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It’s Time to End Maximalism in Crypto

The stakes are too high to turn on each other now.

Is the crypto industry's growth being stifled by the ecosystem's maximalist? (Marco Bianchetti/Unsplash)

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Why DeFi Protocols Are Limiting ETH Borrowing Ahead of Ethereum’s Merge

Aave and Compound voted for precautionary measures to prevent airdrop hoarders from sucking up their liquidity.

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