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Ripple Does Not Care Whether XRP Is 'Sufficiently Decentralized'

Common interpretations of the so-called Hinman document dump misunderstand Ripple’s legal strategy.

Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, speaks at Davos 2020. (CoinDesk)

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The New Crypto Bill Gary Gensler Doesn’t Want You to Know About

U.S. law doesn't let appointed regulators override elected official. But the SEC head may be doing exactly that.

America is still a democracy. Technically, at least. (Andy Morffew, Flickr/CC)

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Can Binance Survive the SEC's Charges?

Don’t bet against someone with eight million Twitter followers who built by far the largest crypto exchange.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

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The SEC Is Fighting the Last War

SEC chair Gary Gensler wants you to think Coinbase and Binance are the same as FTX and Celsius. They’re not.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill, September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Are Centralized Exchanges in the U.S. Doomed?

With the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, the agency is signaling it really is now or never to “come into compliance.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (CoinDesk screen grab from video)

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Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic

Chainalysis and Elliptic have found that crypto is useful for crime, but that’s hardly an argument for banning it.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been a longtime crypto critic. (Gage Skidmore)

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The PulseChain Sideshow Tent Is Collapsing

For some crypto projects, actually launching is the worst possible plan.

Richard Heart (CoinDesk Archives)

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Should Russia Bolster or Ban Bitcoin?

The country reportedly backed out of plans to build a "national crypto exchange," the latest sign of indecision.

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Worldcoin and the Intellectual Decline of Venture Capital

Sam Altman’s spectacularly ill-conceived biometric data project just raised $115 million dollars. Digging into the deal is embarrassing for basically everyone.

The Orb. (Worldcoin)