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The Breakdown
Will Big Tech Enable or Destroy Small Business? Feat. Sahil Bloom
More than 50% of COVID-19 related business closures in the U.S. are now permanent. Can tech platforms provide a new avenue for small biz entrepreneurship?
A Simple Explanation of DeFi and Yield Farming Using Actual Human Words
A primer on yield farming, liquidity mining, automated market making and all the other terms shaping the brave new world of decentralized finance.
What's Behind the Fed's New Push to Promote Inflation?
Why the Fed’s strategy on inflation is changing and why the definition used by America’s central bank may be hurting regular people.
What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?
The internet is alive with demos of what the latest artificial intelligence language model can do. Should we be nervous?
Are Stablecoins Eurodollars 2.0? Long Reads Sunday
Long Reads Sunday features two essays previously published on CoinDesk that show the trajectory of stablecoins in the global economy in 2020.
Social Media Is Democracy's Faultline: The Breakdown Weekly Recap
From PayPal crypto confirmed to action in central bank digital currencies, these were six themes shaping the week.
What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved.
No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't About Bitcoin
The motivations and implications of a hack that had everyone from Coinbase to Kanye shilling a scam for bitcoin.
A Primer on the US and China’s 'New Cold War'
From control of the digital realm to territorial skirmishes, these are the issues shaping an increasingly troubled relationship.
Why Are Execs of Bankrupt Companies Being Rewarded With Millions?
It’s hard to tell people not to be angry with capitalism when the system is rewarding failure with millions of dollars in bankruptcy bonuses.
