Opinion


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.

Carlos Matos promoting Bitconnect

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.

Markets

Disruption in Tether's Value Could Be Crypto Equivalent of 'Breaking the Buck': Former CFTC Chairman

Timothy Massad compared the hypothetical occurrence to the collapse in NAV of the Reserve Primary Fund in September 2008.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC

Policy

Has COVID-19 Made Biden’s Big Spending the New Normal?

The pandemic has made Americans increasingly open to getting help from the government. The Biden budget aims to make the most of those feelings.

U.S. President Joe Biden

Policy

Money Reimagined: Crypto Winter Again? Time to Regroup

With bitcoin's environmental issues affecting its price and adoption, the community needs to reach across boundaries to develop sustainable solutions, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Markets

What $DESK Says About Scarcity, Value and Money

Pull up a $DESK, we're talking about a rewards token.

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Policy

The Node: Regulating Intermediaries in a DeFi World

Leading DeFi lawyers ask: Why apply rules designed for centralized finance to a world where intermediaries are code?

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Policy

Soulja Boy Tells 'Em He Got Paid to Tweet

The rapper accidentally revealed he would be paid to tweet about SaferMars. As DJ Khaled, T.I. and others have found out, that's a no-no.

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Markets

See Tom Brady Speak at the Last Day of Consensus

Also, go deep on DeFi, social tokens, crypto-native banks and more.

Quarterback Tom Brady in action.