Opinion


Finance

Bitcoin Is Good for PayPal, but Is PayPal Good for Bitcoin?

PayPal's embrace of crypto brings a potential 345 million people into the ecosystem. But where banks go, regulators follow.

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Markets

4 Charts Showing Why Financial Advisers Should Care About Bitcoin

From a hedge against inflation to its uncorrelated relationship with stocks, advisers have plenty of reasons to be interested in bitcoin.

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Policy

In the CBDC Race, It's Better to Be Last

As countries like China and Sweden rush to develop digital currencies, the U.S. can afford to take its time.

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Finance

Crypto Is Less Scary Than Halloween

The great Twitter hack of 2020 highlighted the scariest thing about crypto: being tricked by scams. Here is how to avoid being a victim.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Who Are the Real Monsters?

Next to the frightening creatures of the legacy financial system, bitcoin is the normal, wholesome outlier, like the niece from TV’s “The Munsters.”

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Finance

Crypto and Fintech Share Goals: They Should Talk

The missions of programmable money and autonomous finance overlap, so it's surprising people from crypto and fintech don't collaborate more.

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Finance

All-In on DeFi: Why the Days of Centralized Exchanges Are Numbered

The CEO of Binance on why DeFi will come to dominate CeFi.

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Markets

Ethereum, Dark Forests and the Limits of Transparency

The crypto world eschewed trust in favor of transparency. But transparency doesn’t solve the problem of untrustworthiness in financial markets.

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Tech

An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained

Identity is one of our most fundamental human rights. In the age of surveillance, commodification and centralization, it is under threat.

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Policy

How a Decentralized Internet Can Power Latin America's Economy

Bitcoin, fintech and DeFi can help Latin America become an interconnected and inclusive regional economy.

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