Opinion


Opinion

Nayib Bukele Is Not the Bitcoin Hero We Need

Evidence that El Salvador's president has targeted journalists and suppressed free speech contradicts Bitcoin's core values.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has reportedly targeted journalists with spyware. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Opinion

ERC-4626: DeFi's Newest Money Lego

An Ethereum Improvement Proposal wants to standardize a key component in yield-generating strategies.

(Omar Flores/Unsplash)

Opinion

The Urgent Need for Regulatory Clarity on Stablecoins

Regulatory attitudes around stablecoins center around three main points of debate, explains former U.S. Ambassador to China and U.S. Senator Max Baucus.

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

Opinion

NFTs Are Finance as an Aesthetic Medium

The fusion of fractionalized art and DeFi opens up new opportunities for art and creative money-making.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Crypto Firms Can't Outrun the Travel Rule

Firms need to accept their regulatory responsibilities, says the president of FATF, the global anti-money laundering watchdog.

(Andrew Stutesman/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Bitcoin, Inflation and the Expectations Game

For stocks, new data is often already "priced in." For bitcoin, it seems, things are different.

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Opinion

Why 2022 Should Be the Year of the Govcoin

We need a third way between fiat currencies and dangerous cryptocurrencies, argues a leading U.K. entrepreneur.

The U.K. Parliament, London.

Opinion

Kevin O'Leary's Crypto Investing Playbook

Mr. Wonderful, who holds 32 cryptocurrencies, advocates for portfolio diversification.

Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary discussed his investment philosophy with "First Mover." (CoinDesk TV)

Opinion

Metaverse Scarcity Isn’t Real

Because scarcity in the metaverse is arbitrary and artificial, the values created with virtual real estate and NFTs are not the same as in the physical world, argues EY’s Paul Brody.

The real world has real scarcities, unlike the metaverse.

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The 10 Tribes of Crypto

Take the three-minute Cryptopolitical Typology Quiz to see where you stand.

(Joe Hirsch/Metagov)