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Money Reimagined: Enterprise Blockchain Isn’t Dead
5.2.2021
Corporations find blockchain technology challenging to use. But it's much too early to write off enterprise applications wholesale
China Leads Africa’s Digital Currency Race
3.2.2021
With years of public investment and plenty of penetration for its phone makers, China is well placed to establish a digital currency in Africa
The Web is for More Than Document Viewing
3.2.2021
I poked at a tweet from Ken Kocienda over the weekend:
“Water not wet” reports man standing in ocean. https://t.co/5oUUdWARTU
— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 31, 2021
I don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. …
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A Big Year for Decentralized Identity and Infrastructure
2.2.2021
The World Economic Forum's head of blockchain highlights four trends to look out for in the year ahead
Why Crypto Markets Aren’t ‘All-to-All’ Either (and How They Can Be)
2.2.2021
GameStop-Robinhood revealed inequalities in the retail equity trading system. Can crypto markets do better? They must
Robinhood Can’t Democratize Finance Using Old Tools
1.2.2021
Robinhood saw the ire of traders last week because it promised to be different. It turned out to be fancy app on top of an antiquated system
The GameStop Stop Is Not a Technology Problem
29.1.2021
Robinhood didn't halt GameStop trading to punish retail players; it reacted to market risk. And, no, blockchain alone wouldn't have fixed this
Money Reimagined: Narratives Wall Street Can’t Control
29.1.2021
It used to be that Wall Street dictated the big stories around finance. It’s unclear whether that’s still the case
GameStop and the Real Market Manipulators
28.1.2021
WallStreetBets traders coordinated buying of GameStop stock to squeeze short-selling hedge funds – but was that collusion?
Scarcity Gives Bitcoin Value, but Not the Way You Think
28.1.2021
Bitcoin is "scarce" (and therefore valuable) when demand for it exceeds the available supply, not because of its 21 million hard cap, says our columnist
‘The Squeezening’: How the Gamestop Backlash will Curtail Freedom
28.1.2021
Gamestop's "squeezening" is likely to increase calls for curbs on "memetic disturbances." That could be dangerous for free speech
What DeFi Has in Common With Cubism
27.1.2021
DeFi's innovation system is reminiscent of an art movement that passes ideas back and forth until lasting breakthroughs emerge
The Bitcoin Paradox
27.1.2021
Bitcoin may not be a financial bubble. But, when Bitcoiners reject inconvenient information, it is an epistemic bubble
Bubbles Are Good for Bitcoin
26.1.2021
Far from being damaging to bitcoin, bubbles help bring in new users and ultimately accelerate the project's growth
4 Ways Blockchain Could Catapult Into the Mainstream
26.1.2021
Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction
What Tether Means When It Says It’s ‘Regulated’
26.1.2021
Representatives say the $25B stablecoin is "regulated" but the issuer doesn't look like a financial institution bound by norms and laws
We Have Entered the Age of Anonymous Crypto
25.1.2021
Spurred by an information crisis and compounding global unrest, privacy has entered public consciousness
The Future of Money in the Multiverse
25.1.2021
It's 2028 and central banks, Big Tech companies and the "deplatformed" are establishing their own worlds of digital money
Money Reimagined: Letter to President Biden
22.1.2021
President Biden needs to reform the global financial system and avoid a 1930s-style depression. Digital currencies can help
Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity
22.1.2021
We have the core tech to enable radically more ethical and beneficial social media networks. Here's what we'll need