Opinion


Tech

There's Certified Fair Trade Coffee, So How About Certified and Persistent NFTs?

As the hype dies down, the pressure is off to mint every NFT imaginable for a quick buck and the industry can turn its attention to less sexy but crucial foundational matters.

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Markets

Predicting the Future Is Easy, Profiting Is Hard

There are obvious crypto investments to make but, judged by the dot-com boom, they may not be the best ones, says EY's blockchain lead.

A Kozmo.com bike messenger, Manhattan,  Feb. 11, 2000.

Markets

The Node: Bitcoin, Warts and All

If mass adoption is the aim, we might as well tell the truth about what that world looks like. The whole truth.

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation at Consensus 2019

Markets

Money Reimagined: The Coinbase Catalyst

CoinDesk's chief content officer on how Coinbase's listing next week could drive new investor interest in crypto startups and ideas.

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Finance

Visa and PayPal Can Be the Cosmos and Polkadot of CBDCs

Existing payment players have a head start in the race to integrate central bank digital currencies worldwide, says our columnist.

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Markets

China, the Convenient Foil

Peter Thiel is both right and wrong in calling bitcoin a tool that could empower China and challenge the U.S. dollar.

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Markets

Miners, Front-Running-as-a-Service Is Theft

There's a simple word for projects that seek to advantage miners while systematically exploiting blockchain users, say three researchers.

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Policy

The Accidental Crypto Lobbyist

Our reporter contacts state lawmakers for clarification and ends up inadvertently reshaping a bill.

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Markets

Google's Win for Open Source

“What happened here, that no one expected, is the Supreme Court found fair use as a matter of law," tech lawyer Marta Belcher said.

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Policy

The Real Trouble With Cross-Border Payments

Blame governments, not technology, for costly and inefficient international payments. But private cryptocurrencies could help.

U.S. border at El Paso, Texas.