Opinion


Markets

Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Marketing Coup

By embracing bitcoiners, Tesla is likely to make more sales among that crowd even if they pay in fiat. Any extra BTC the carmaker gets is gravy.

Elon Musk's upstart auto company Tesla is running a bitcoin node.

Finance

Money Reimagined: NFTs Can Learn From DeFi's Growth

Once the frenzy around NFTs subsides, the category will need new ways to grow. DeFi is one promising avenue, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Policy

Crypto Must Apply Safety Lessons of the Existing Financial System

Governments have "very little incentive" to change money laundering rules to accommodate crypto, says the long-time head of the FATF.

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Policy

The Node: Bitcoin Is 'Armageddon Insurance'?

What would it take for governments to add bitcoin to their balance sheets? Here's what one expert thinks.

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Policy

The Real Problem With Crypto

While boomers lay down ever more debt, millennials (and younger) have started looking for an exit door. How will governments respond?

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Markets

The Node: Beeple Sold Out. So What?

Crypto could do with a little less tribalism.

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Policy

MMT, Crypto and the New Nature of Money

It is ironic that quantitative easing is reinforcing Bitcoin when it was born in opposition to a policy of scarcity, says Arcane Research's Sofia Blikstad.

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank

Tech

DeFi Should Look Beyond Tech Hubs for Growth

For DeFi to become a consumer-led phenomenon, it needs to stop focusing on places that already have good banking solutions.

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Policy

The Node: Biden's Grid Plans Can Clean Bitcoin

Proposals for bitcoin to act as a "money battery" within the renewable system show how technology can reduce the network's footprint.

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Markets

Fascism on the Blockchain? The Work of Art in the Age of NFTs

The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too, culture critic Jonathan Beller writes.

Walter Benjamin wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” while the Nazi Party was consolidating power in the 1930s.