Opinion


Technologies

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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Juridique

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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Technologies

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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Juridique

The Hard Forks That Didn't Dilute Bitcoin

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

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Marchés

Why Hardnosed Bitcoiners Can Learn to Love DeFi

Stacking sats and decentralized finance are more similar economic modes than most realize.

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Juridique

'Great Artists Steal' – What Enterprise Blockchain Can Learn From the Past

Enterprise blockchain doesn't need to reinvent the wheel: Communications standards in use for decades are built for machine-to-machine commerce.

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Marchés

Better Broadband Will Pave the Way for a 'Brand New World'

Self-help guru James Altucher sees a world where we can jump between virtual realities. Will it be a better world? Time will tell.

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Marchés

Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive

As the internet shifts to the open, decentralized standards of Web 3.0, can we find a balance between competition and cooperation?

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Juridique

How the Crypto Industry Seesaws Between Assets and Infrastructure

Bitcoin invented a new asset as well as new infrastructure. Often, we confuse the two roles it plays.

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