Opinion


Markets

Ethereum Is Manhattan and Everyone Is Moving to the Suburbs

As things stand, only the most liquid, hyperconnected protocols will be able to thrive on Ethereum. That's why many protocols are heading to the "suburbs."

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Finance

Reading Between the Lines of Brian Armstrong's Mission Memo

Brian Armstrong's apolitical stance speaks to an unhealthy Silicon Valley culture where debate is shut down and substantive conversations happen underground.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Markets

Ethereum Is the Frontier of Financial Innovation

Innovation occurs when the costs of iteration and experimentation reduce.

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Policy

Coinbase's 'Mission' Violates the Spirit of Bitcoin

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wants it both ways: to be apolitical about uncomfortable disruptions and political about Bitcoin's mission to disrupt the world.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Markets

Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work.

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Tech

How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to People

Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change.

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Policy

After BitMEX: Regulation Must Change for the Digital Age

Recent regulatory enforcement against BitMEX shows how out of step the world's financial regulators are with digital innovation.

Arthur Hayes, then-CEO of BitMEX, speaks at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018.

Finance

CEXs vs. DEXs: The Future Battle Lines

The future will see DEXs challenge centralized exchanges by finally separating custody and exchange, says the co-founder of IDEX.

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Tech

The Digital Archipelago: How to Build an Internet Where Communities Thrive

Technology exists to serve people. Today, the situation is nearly reversed. Each of us is just propping up an engagement graph somewhere.

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Policy

The Hard Forks That Didn't Dilute Bitcoin

Why Bitcoin continues to trounce BCH, BSV and other wannabe challenger projects.

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