Opinion


Política

Venezuelans Look to Crypto-Dollars for Financial Security

Crypto-dollars offer an alternative to unreliable currencies and the dangers of holding physical cash. They just need to be designed for everyday people.

Venezuelan Bolivars and U.S. dollars.

Política

Mr. Powell, If You Want Higher Inflation, Give People Money

The Federal Reserve wants a little more inflation to keep the economy buoyant. That's hard to achieve when Main Street is so under water.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. (CoinDesk Archives)

Mercados

Money Reimagined: From COVID Generation to Crypto Generation

Millennials and Generation Zers have many reasons to embrace crypto and reform the financial system in their own interests.

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Política

Data Ownership Should Be About Software, Not Lawsuits

Andrew Yang's "Data Dividend" and the EU's GDPR are not enough to put users back in control of their data.

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Tecnologia

Think Quant Trading Doesn't Work in Crypto? Think Again

Looking at the performance of crypto hedge funds in 2018 and 2019, it is obvious that crypto quant funds are working.

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Tecnologia

The Importance of Randomness in the Internet Age

Random numbers might not sound like a public good, but we actually rely on randomness for a host of socially useful things.

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Mercados

The NFT Game That Makes Cents for Filipinos During COVID

Axie Infinity, a NFT trading game running on Ethereum, has proven a pandemic lifeline for a small community north of Manila.

A collage of people in Nueva Ecija playing Axie (Emfarsis)

Mercados

DeFi Is Just Like the ICO Boom and Regulators Are Circling

DeFi needs to self-regulate or, as happened with ICOs, regulators will punish irrational exuberance in the crypto markets.

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Tecnologia

Ethereum’s Fees Mean Choosing Between a World Computer and a Financial Network

Large public blockchains are destined to privilege the largest, most fee-tolerant transactions at the expense of non-financial uses.

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Mercados

Money Reimagined: DeFi-ing History

For clues to the future of decentralized finance, it's useful to look at waves of financial innovation past.

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