Category: Money Reimagined

Bitcoin’s recent surge shows the power of celebrity and how, like it or not, influencers create value in the modern economy. (Rachel Sun/CoinDesk) Feb 12, 2021 at 5:42 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2021 at 6:39 p.m. UTC Money Reimagined: Musk Masters the Attention Economy Welcome to Money Reimagined. Well, this past week felt historic. As […]

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President Biden needs to reform the global financial system and avoid a 1930s-style depression. Digital currencies can help. (Pool/Getty Images) Jan 22, 2021 at 5:57 p.m. UTC Money Reimagined: Letter to President Biden Welcome to this week’s Money Reimagined, coming to you two days into a new U.S. presidency.  Already, with various executive orders and […]

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Dec 11, 2020 at 5:14 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2020 at 5:58 p.m. UTC (Samir Hussein/WireImage) Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Tug of War as Wall Street Moves In A tug of war over Bitcoin’s future is becoming more ferocious.  This battle, pitting corporate interests seeking to profit from the Bitcoin system’s disruptive potential against an anti-corporatist […]

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Dec 4, 2020 at 5:58 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 4, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. UTC (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) Money Reimagined: Bitcoin vs. Gold Is a Battle of Narratives One reason I feel privileged to write about digital money is the ideas and technologies it seeks to disrupt aren’t just a few years or decades old. They […]

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Short-sellers, who make money when the price of a targeted financial instrument declines, aren’t always popular with corporate or government leaders. Those on the receiving end of contrarian bets against stocks or currencies tend to portray them as sharks undermining people striving to build, grow and create value. This, if you’ll excuse the pun, is […]

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In the lore of digital disruption, Eastman Kodak Co.’s downfall looms large. Kodak was once one of the world’s most powerful companies. But it failed to act on digital cameras and online photo sharing, despite seeing the trends years before. (Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created the first digital camera in 1975.) It’s an apt story […]

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Nov 6, 2020 at 16:48 UTCUpdated Nov 6, 2020 at 17:11 UTC Money Reimagined: Crypto-Informed Ideas for the Future of Government The good news is America is not in the midst of a full-blown civil war – not yet, at least.  But, however you feel about Joe Biden’s apparent victory in the most difficult presidential […]

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Oct 30, 2020 at 17:31 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 19:20 UTC Money Reimagined: Who Are the Real Monsters? For this special Halloween edition, CoinDesk Executive Editor Marc Hochstein weighs in with a guest column about the spookier aspects of the banking system.  It’s a perfect follow-up to last week’s newsletter on the harmful legacy […]

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