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Crypto Long & Short: Washington Plays Tennis With Crypto
22.2.2023
Glenn Williams Jr. examines what politicians are saying about crypto regulation in Washington, D.C. Then, Jodie Gunzberg, managing director of CoinDesk Indices, talks about the crypto sectors that continue to thrive despite the regulatory crackdown
War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity
22.2.2023
As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in the name of security
Bitcoin Ordinals Can Lift the Entire Crypto Ecosystem
17.2.2023
The arrival of the Ordinals Protocol, which allows for the creation of Bitcoin NFTs, has coincided with a big jump in the price of bitcoin. Add that to the SEC's exemption of Bitcoin from the label of security, and we see a bullish bitcoin picture emerging
4 Huge Revelations in the SEC’s Charges Against Do Kwon and Terraform Labs
17.2.2023
TerraUSD was a more overt and calculated fraud than was previously known – and Do Kwon is still cashing out, at size
Bankman-Fried’s Stanford-Connected Backers and the Decline of Tech Prestige
16.2.2023
State of Crypto: Interpreting the Paxos-Binance Tea Leaves
15.2.2023
Remember how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s declaration of war against crypto staking was big news for like two days? This week we’re looking at the other big news from last week: Paxos and the Binance USD stablecoin it issues. The SEC has apparently alleged the sale of BUSD violates...
Crypto Long & Short: Sorting Out Bitcoin’s P/E Ratio
15.2.2023
This week, Glenn Williams Jr. taps his equity research analyst background – the land of price-to-earnings ratios and other valuation techniques – to sort out whether bitcoin is under- or overvalued. Then, Jennifer Murphy, the CEO of Runa Digital Assets, puts digital assets into very broad...
Arbitrum Surges Ahead as Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape Takes Shape
15.2.2023
Layer 2 rollups now see more transaction volume than Ethereum’s main network
Tokenization and the Future of Crypto
1.2.2023
Pedro Palandrani of Global X discusses where KKR, Starbucks and others are going with the tokenization movement
Crypto Diversification Is Back in 2023
25.1.2023
Bitcoin can be viewed as protection from inept central banks (and, yes, a tool for speculation, too)
Why Did Visa Buy a $150K NFT? Why Does Anyone?
23.8.2021
There are some very good reasons, it turns out, rooted in our deep, totally irrational animal brains
State of Crypto: Congress Is Holding 3 Hearings Today, Here’s What to Expect
27.7.2021
Congress is holding three simultaneous hearings around cryptocurrencies today – and they're all on different types of use cases
State of Crypto: Inside the NRCC’s Plan to Accept Crypto Donations
29.6.2021
The NRCC will soon accept crypto donations because Republican donors requested the payment method, the campaign committee's chair said
Crypto Long & Short: The Market Says Bitcoin Is for Speculation, Not Dollarization
20.6.2021
Data from services on Bitcoin and Ethereum shows what's real in crypto adoption stories
Bitcoin Is Batman
1.6.2021
Another way of looking at the philosopher Craig Warmke's conception of Bitcoin as a fictional substance
Crypto Long & Short: What I’ve Learned in the Past Five Years
30.5.2021
Seven main takeaways on crypto markets from my time at CoinDesk. Plus: the future of the Bitcoin Mining Council
Crypto Long & Short: Why Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Matters
9.5.2021
The most important impact for the investing market overall: It's a reminder that Bitcoin is a technology. Plus: What's next for dogecoin?
Crypto Long & Short: Peter Thiel Defines Bitcoin’s Accidental Role in Global Politics
11.4.2021
Thiel's comments about China “weaponizing” bitcoin to hurt the U.S. are a warning about the cost of inaction
Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Marketing Coup
26.3.2021
By embracing bitcoiners, Tesla is likely to make more sales among that crowd even if they pay in fiat. Any extra BTC the carmaker gets is gravy
Crypto Long & Short: Bitpanda’s Raise Is About More Than Market Infrastructure
21.3.2021
The $170 million funding round highlights the explosive growth of crypto as an asset class – and the potential of the European market