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If Stablecoins Cause Instability, Regulators Have Themselves to Blame

Pseudonymity is a key reason for the emergence of the $110 billion stablecoin market. If regulators are worried about financial stability, they should have some KYC controls.

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Everything Moves Fast in DeFi, Even Political Action

The controversial DeFi Education Fund will pay off for the whole industry.

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Why Central Bankers Invoke Free Banking to Attack Stablecoins

If you're going to warn people about stablecoins by citing 19th century history, you should at least include the full record, says our columnist.

$5 National Gold Bank Note issued by the First National Gold Bank of San Francisco, California, 1870s.

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How Axie Infinity Creates Work in the Metaverse

A cute NFT pet game called Axie Infinity is currently raking in more protocol revenue than Ethereum and Bitcoin. Filipinos are benefitting.

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Money Reimagined: Why the World Still Needs Uncensorable Marketplaces

As commerce moves online, transactions are increasingly subject to vetoes by middlemen who impose their values. Innocent people need alternatives.

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Can Coinbase Keep Wall Street Happy During the Crypto 'Pause'?

For the first time ever, a publicly traded company is navigating crypto's doldrums. Wall Street analysts may not react kindly.

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Hard Forks Are Fan Fiction

If the Bitcoin network is a collectively told story, as the philosopher Craig Warmke argued, wouldn't hard forks be fan fiction?

Dogecoin was forked from Lucky Coin – a fork of Litecoin, which is a fork of Bitcoin.

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Jackson Palmer vs. Spike Lee: 'Inherently Right Wing' or 'Digital Rebellion'?

Jackson Palmer and others sometime conflate bad behavior with deeper technological bias. Spike Lee sees things differently.

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Bitcoin Doesn't Care if You Think It's Right Wing

Dogecoin co-founder Jackson Palmer says bitcoin is "inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic" but, really, it's whatever you want it to be, says our columnist.

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The Headache of 'Crypto Colonialism'

Blockchains can’t rebuild roads or end sectarian violence, famine or natural disasters.

"Blockchain projects can do very little to repair the roads and build strong political institutions in places like Ethiopia," Peter Howson writes.