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DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin
25.5.2023
Excavating the Truth Around the Bitcoin Mining Discourse
24.5.2023
Last year, a group of CoinDesk reporters traveled to Seneca Lake to examine the effect Greenidge Generation – a resurrected power plant that now mines bitcoin – had on the surrounding communities. Though we expected to hear locals say they disliked the plant and its continued operation, we found...
Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?
24.5.2023
Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those may be empty threats
Crypto's Open Source Ethos Yields Results
23.5.2023
It’s crypto winter and a time for building, as innovative new open-source projects on Polkadot and Cosmos can attest
Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day: the Time a Bitcoin User Bought 2 Pizzas for 10,000 BTC
22.5.2023
Ledger’s Hard Lesson: Being Right Isn't Good Enough
19.5.2023
Public communication doesn’t work like computer code. The French hardware wallet maker learned that the hard way
To Axie Infinity and Beyond
19.5.2023
Axie Infinity: Origins launched on the Apple App Store, pumping AXS tokens. Plus, we examine if NFT trading volume matters
Should We Worry About Tether’s Bitcoin-Buying Plan?
18.5.2023
Squint and you can see resemblances Do Kwon’s bitcoin buying during Terra/luna’s high days
What Does the Debt Limit Showdown Mean for Bitcoin?
17.5.2023
A U.S. debt default would be bad for absolutely everything
Frogs, Fevers and Fees: Bitcoin’s New Governance Challenge
12.5.2023
The creation of Bitcoin-based meme coins using the new BRC-20 standard has driven up Bitcoin fees as they use more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction. But while some developers in the Bitcoin community are proposing a filter to block Bitcoin NFT projects, such censorship could run counter...
Sam Bankman-Fried's Ties to George Santos Are Just the Beginning
12.5.2023
The indicted congressman, who wildly embellished his background, received big donations from FTX executives. That was just one strand in Bankman-Fried's tangled influence-peddling web
Musk’s Milady Meme, Opening Up Ordinals
12.5.2023
Miladys NFTs saw a brief pump after Elon Musk tweeted about them and Binance is making it easier for people to buy Bitcoin NFTs
What’s the Reality of Crypto in Crime?
11.5.2023
The DOJ's Eun Young Choi said the agency is constantly finding crypto connections in its criminal investigations. But how deep does the problem go and how much should we blame the blockchain?
Music Albums as an Asset Class
11.5.2023
The tokenization of music and the ability to create unique digital content means that music albums can now be viewed as an asset class, providing a new investment opportunity for clients of financial advisors
If Bitcoin Can’t Handle a Few JPEGs, How Can It Handle the World?
10.5.2023
Crypto Isn’t Ready for Jack Bogle
10.5.2023
Alex Botte of Runa Digital Assets explains why crypto isn’t ready for passive investing
Web3 Represents a Strong Alternative to Today’s Internet
10.5.2023
Web3 is a strong alternative to the current centralized internet, and there are associated crypto tokens worth examining
Previewing Congress's Joint Crypto Regulation Hearing
10.5.2023
Over the past several weeks, Congress – particularly the House Financial Services Committee – has held a number of hearings on crypto and its role in the world. Even a hearing supposedly focused on overseeing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission instead mostly saw questions on crypto...
A Eulogy for a Day Trader's Exchange
9.5.2023
Bittrex, a popular exchange during the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, offered users and the crypto industry invaluable lessons in economics and regulatory affairs
Fractional Reserve Banking Is a Fraud (but It's Genius)
8.5.2023