Opinion


Policy

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin: Hype or History in the Making?

What does it mean for a country like El Salvador to adopt bitcoin as "legal tender"? It depends on whom you ask, says our columnist.

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Policy

Bitcoin as Legal Tender? Why El Salvador’s Plan Isn’t as Crazy as You Think

El Salvador decided decades ago it didn’t trust itself to manage its own currency. Lately, it may have reason not to trust Washington either.

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Finance

Blockchain Games That Gamers Want to Win

Gamers want a great game more than anything else, and crypto hasn't delivered a great game yet.

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Finance

The Ransom-Ware

An ode to companies that poorly guard their computer systems and end up paying extortionists bitcoin to unlock them (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling).

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Policy

Money Reimagined: The Power of Community

Bitcoin's big Florida meetup and CoinDesk's own $DESK project demonstrate a crypto truth: Community precedes technology when creating money.

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Tech

DeFi's Sticky Future

Innovations tend to stack. And there's nothing more stackable than composability and interoperability involving money.

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Markets

How Do You Know Crypto Is Winning? Look Where the Talent Is Going

Crypto is poaching top talent from financial and technology giants.

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Policy

The Lesson of Bitconnect: Promoters Can Be Liable

The SEC has filed charges against five promoters of the alleged crypto fraud. It's a chance to learn from the mistakes of Trevon James and Co.

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Markets

Bitcoin Is Batman

Another way of looking at the philosopher Craig Warmke's conception of Bitcoin as a fictional substance.

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Finance

Black Wall Street 3.0

A new crypto wallet, named for a Tulsa neighborhood destroyed by fire 100 years ago, shows how communities of color can build wealth.

Aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., on June 1921.