Opinion


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After DeFi, DeSoc: Finding Web 3’s Soul

By using Web 3’s building blocks to represent social identity, the ecosystem can overcome its current limitations and bring about a decentralized society.

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Do Kwon Is the Elizabeth Holmes of Crypto

If you promise investors something impossible, is it a crime?

LUNA fell to as low as $7.62 during Asian trading hours. (TradingView)

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Bitcoin Is Down, but You Don't Have to Be

Market conditions are not normal right now, but we can all act sane.

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Dr. Doom’s Crypto Embrace? We’re All Just Figuring Things Out

Bitcoin skeptic Nouriel Roubini’s development of a digital currency with Dubai’s Atlas Capital is the latest evidence of an industry that is still evolving.

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Why on Earth Would Land Be Scarce in the Metaverse?

With their “skeuomorphic” approach to real estate, Web 3 metaverse projects may have fallen into a trap of their own making.

In the real world, there's only one Lombardy, Italy. But that's not quite how "land" works in the metaverse. (Michele Rossetti/Getty Images)

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Inflation Will Create a Political Vacuum. Can Bitcoin Fill It?

Prices are rising at a time of pervasive distrust in government to fix the problem. That leaves the door open to bitcoin, the ultimate anti-inflation hedge.

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The Scarcity Mindset Driving Crypto's Energy Critics

The DeFi Education Fund weighs in on the New York state legislature's attempt to curb proof-of-work mining, and dreams of energy abundant future.

A digital tree. (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Is a Luxury Good

Unwrapping Sam Bankman-Fried's analogy about money-printing boxes.

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DeFi: Building the Infrastructure for Future Economies

It's also building the infrastructure for existing economies.

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Opinion

Matt Taibbi, PayPal's Deplatforming and the Case for Crypto

The famed mag writer wrote a story about alt media financial censorship. Oh, how deep the story goes.

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