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What It Means if Companies Like Twitter Are ‘Systemically Important’ to Financial Regulators
23.10.2020
NYDFS proposals following the Twitter hack are a warning to everyone using centrally-controlled "designated" platforms
Money Reimagined: ‘They Starve.’ The Ugly Side to the US’s KYC-AML Obsession
23.10.2020
Laws like the Bank Secrecy Act, which turns 50 this week, have helped stop money laundering and terrorism. But KYC and AML requirements have served to harm the world's neediest through higher costs and reduced services
Three Trends Killing Web Privacy and Decentralization
22.10.2020
The decentralized design of the web gives it the potential to be more privacy-preserving than any other system. Yet, there are long range threats at play
We Still Lack a Rational Way to Value Tokens
22.10.2020
Tokens continue to show little correlation between usage and value, confounding efforts to build better valuation methods
Forget Ethereum, DeFi Is Being Built on Bitcoin
22.10.2020
Edan Yago looks to reclaim "decentralized finance" as Bitcoin's, not Ethereum's, turf
What the History of Headphones Says About the Internet’s Future
21.10.2020
What does the historical development of headphones tell us about the future of the internet?
Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise
21.10.2020
The U.S. Treasury Department has outlawed certain ransomware payments. If it was serious, it would go further, says our columnist
Announcing the 2020 State of CSS Survey
20.10.2020
Last year’s State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There’s the quick adoption of features, like calc() and CSS custom properties. There’s also the overwhelming opinion that CSS is fun to write even as we see a growing reliance on CSS-in JS. We also saw some predictable...
The US Risks Getting Left Behind on CBDCs
20.10.2020
The Federal Reserve's “wait and see” approach to digital currency could deprive the U.S. of important fiscal and monetary tools as its rivals move ahead
CBDCs Mean Evolution, Not Revolution
20.10.2020
Central bank digital currencies can help create a more inclusive financial system, says the innovation chief at the Bank for International Settlements
A Day in the Life of the Splinternet
18.10.2020
Cypherpunk historian Finn Brunton imagines a future where there are many internets, each making demands on your attention
Cryptocurrency Is Just a Minor Threat to the State
17.10.2020
States still have the armies, the police and – on a good day anyway – democratic legitimacy. All of that still matters, and will for a long time
Decentralized Data Storage’s Only Competition Is the Public Cloud
16.10.2020
Ben Golub, CEO of Storj, sends a complimentary note to Filecoin. Competition is good and so is countering the extreme concentration of cloud storage
How DeFi Can Avoid the Irrelevance of P2P Lending and Crowdfunding
16.10.2020
To avoid the fate of other p2p projects, DeFi protocols need incentives and feedback loops so users choose open-source over closed systems
Money Reimagined: How Ethereum 2.0’s ‘Lock Up’ Will Drive DeFi Innovation
16.10.2020
As Ethereum's 2.0 upgrade locks up serious ether volume, we're likely to see financial ideas that unlock value without undermining mission
Five Machine Learning Methods Crypto Traders Should Know About
16.10.2020
Quantitative crypto finance has a wide array of machine learning techniques to call on. Here are five, explained for their characteristics
China’s Digital Yuan Blurs the Lines Between CBDCs and Crypto
15.10.2020
An in-depth analysis of China's digital yuan project reveals more similarities to crypto than you might think. Upshot: seismic disruption to the financial system
The Inevitability of ‘Big Blockchain’
15.10.2020
The blockchain industry already exhibits signs of the same forces that have driven over-consolidation in the broader economy
High Gas Fees Prevent Ethereum From Being Ethereum
14.10.2020
Miners are incentivized to keep Ethereum gas fees high, and in doing so limit one of the network's principal use cases
Tokenized Staked ETH Will Replace ETH (And That’s a Good Thing)
14.10.2020
Ethereum's shift to proof-of-stake will take conventional ETH out of circulation, replaced by a tokenized version of itself, says the CEO of Staked