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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
Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Won’t Stop Money Laundering, But it Could Ban Crypto
18.5.2023
The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Roger Marshall are pushing through Congress is the legislative equivalent of a Trojan Horse, writes John Rizzo. It would effectively ban crypto in the guise of fighting money laundering
The Blocksize Wars Revisited: How Bitcoin’s Civil War Still Resonates Today
17.5.2023
Amid climbing transaction fees and increased development activity, bitcoiners are warring over the future of the network. Is this a replay or a result of the so-called Blocksize Wars
Regulators Should Not 'Front-Run' Congress on Stablecoins
17.5.2023
The House has made it clear that passing a stablecoin bill is a top priority. Regulators – like the SEC – shouldn’t get ahead of the legislative process, say Bain Capital’s Tuongvy Le and Khurram Dara
What Does the Debt Limit Showdown Mean for Bitcoin?
17.5.2023
A U.S. debt default would be bad for absolutely everything
Bitcoin is a threat to the energy-use status quo – and that’s a good thing
16.5.2023
Banning or taxing crypto mining out of existence isn’t going to solve this country’s issues around power consumption and grid stability – but supporting Bitcoin just might
Serial Phishing Scammer Uses a Mix of Laundering Techniques, Including Coin Swaps and a Mysterious OTC
16.5.2023
Attacker behind a fake HitBTC website might have stolen $15M worth of crypto from multiple scams and phishing attacks
Payroll Startup Rise Wins CoinDesk's 2023 Pitchfest Contest
15.5.2023
Based in Ohio, Rise onboards employees for automatic crypto paychecks
Tokenization Is the Way to Realize the Biden’s Electric Vehicle Overhaul
15.5.2023
As the Administration looks to re-shore and clean up the EV industry, blockchain technology offers a means to ensure transparency, says Qichao Hu of the Li-Metal EV battery manufacturer
As Bitcoin Scales, We Need Better Custodial Solutions
12.5.2023
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
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?
The White House’s Bitcoin Mining Tax Undermines Itself
11.5.2023
Imposing a levy on mining in the U.S. will send the industry overseas, increasing emissions while depriving the grid of a useful form of “demand response,” says Nic Carter
CoinDesk Turns 10 – 2020: The Rise of the Meme Economy
11.5.2023
As the world locked down for COVID, meme-assets like Dogecoin and Disaster Girl grabbed the attention of a younger generation of retail investors. Three years later, memes are driving value across financial markets. This feature is part of our "CoinDesk Turns 10" series
Rehypothecation May Be Common in Traditional Finance, but It Will Never Work With Bitcoin
10.5.2023
Applying rehypothecation onto bitcoin or crypto ignores the fundamental essence of these assets arising from a core bitcoin innovation, Christopher Calicott writes
If Bitcoin Can’t Handle a Few JPEGs, How Can It Handle the World?
10.5.2023
We Need Regulatory Clarity to Keep Crypto Exchanges Onshore and DeFi Permissionless
10.5.2023
The lack of clear crypto regulation risks sending companies overseas. Congress must bring regulatory clarity to crypto market structure, defining the bounds and appropriate legal treatment of crypto securities, commodities, and exchanges, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp
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
There's No Such Thing as High Fees on Bitcoin
9.5.2023
Bitcoin’s BRC-20 debate is a re-run of the 2015-17 blocksize wars, except this time some of the combatants have changed sides, says Nic Carter
CoinDesk Turns 10: How The DAO Hack Changed Ethereum and Crypto
9.5.2023
The $60 million hack in 2016 led to a controversial revision of the blockchain, and was a factor leading to the ICO boom starting the following year, argues David Z Morris. This feature is part of our “CoinDesk Turns 10” series