Opinion


Finance

How to Escape Contracts That Are Killing Your Company During Coronavirus

Our “Not Legal Advice” columnist reviews options for changing or terminating business contracts during this crisis.

Medical data company OneMedNet late last month purchased $1.8 million of bitcoin (Fusion Medical Animatin/Unsplash

Markets

Crypto Progressives Become Conservative With Their Own Chains

Those who style themselves as crypto progressives when rejecting the orthodoxy almost inevitably become crypto conservatives as they settle on a system they like, says Nic Carter.

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Finance

Banks Have to Embrace Distributed Ledger Tech, Even if It Kills Them

To secure their futures, banks have to confront their fear of change and embrace innovation, says consultant Chuck Fried.

Chuck Fried

Finance

MakerDAO's Problems Are a Textbook Case of Governance Failure

MakerDAO could have planned for its "Black Swan" event last week.

MakerDAO CEO Rune Christensen image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

Why Bitcoin's Safe-Haven Narrative Has Flown Out the Window

After the past week, bitcoin will never again be considered a safe haven investment, argues Noelle Acheson. And that’s not a bad thing…

A trader holds his head as he watches a falling chart on a screen.

Markets

Extreme Social Distancing: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 1

How did we get in this mess? How do we get out of it? What will the post-coronavirus world look like? First in an occasional series.

IN-N-OUT: Workers in hazmat suits greet visitors to the drive-through coronavirus testing facility in New Rochelle, N.Y., before sticking swabs up their noses. (Photo by Michael J. Casey)

Policy

Bitcoin's Ransomware Problem Won't Go Away

By the end of 2019, at least $128 million in bitcoin had been paid to ransomware hackers. That's not good optics for a payment system.

Cryptolocker ransomware, via Flickr/Christiaan Colen

Policy

Defining Cryptocurrency Is the Best Way to Kill It

We should stop trying to classify cryptocurrency as a beast from another planet. Rather, we just need to accept it as the future of money.

William Mougayar

Tech

Mass Surveillance Threatens Personal Privacy Amid Coronavirus

The extreme surveillance measures taken to address COVID-19 are not normal or inevitable.

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Tech

In Defense of Blockchain Voting

Recent election tech foul-ups have people scrambling for paper ballots. But they're not really the future of voting, says Intercoin's Greg Magarshak.

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