Category: Opinion

Fixing Crypto’s Silos

January 15, 2021

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Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability. (Shutterstock) Jan 15, 2021 at 7:58 p.m. UTC It’s an established truth the cryptocurrency sector is more fragmented than shattered glass. Industry devotees have long made the most of working piecemeal, accepting ever-increasing fragmentation as the price […]

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Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Warning for Central Banks

January 15, 2021

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Bitcoin’s rising price reflects declining faith in the existing financial system. Will central bankers like Christine Lagarde take notice? (Illustration: Moe Na/CoinDesk) Jan 15, 2021 at 5:42 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 15, 2021 at 7:15 p.m. UTC Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Warning for Central Banks Another week, another lifetime lived:   The U.S. President impeached, again. Worldwide COVID-19 […]

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Twitter, Trump and the ‘Private Company’ Fallacy

January 14, 2021

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Defending deplatforming as the right of private companies assumes that truly private companies are possible. They may not be. (Nadia Bormotova/Getty Images) Jan 14, 2021 at 1:49 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2021 at 3:13 p.m. UTC Twitter, Trump and the ‘Private Company’ Fallacy In the wake of the coordinated deplatformings of President Trump, his associates […]

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FinCEN’s Crypto Rules Aren’t as Unfair as Jack Dorsey Says

January 12, 2021

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Jan 12, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. UTC FinCEN’s Crypto Rules Aren’t as Unfair as Jack Dorsey Says Over the last few weeks, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, has been inundated with 7,477 angry comments about a rule change that it proposed just before Christmas. “Impressive ineptitude” says one anonymous commenter, while another […]

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Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Road to Gold

January 8, 2021

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Jan 8, 2021 at 6:27 p.m. UTC Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Road to Gold I won’t do that again. Money Reimagined goes on break for three weeks, and what happens?  Bitcoin soars 82%. More than 54,000 Americans die of COVID-19. And, oh yeah, an insurrection happens in Washington, D.C. On the second, the numbers speak for […]

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Institutional Custody Will Challenge Retail-Oriented Crypto

January 7, 2021

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Jan 7, 2021 at 4:04 p.m. UTC (Joël de Vriend/Unsplash) Institutional Custody Will Challenge Retail-Oriented Crypto The institutions are coming. The herd is arriving. Institutional participation in the digital asset market is imminent.  As this happens, it’s worth considering how the entry of highly regulated financial companies will change the marketplace infrastructure for crypto, which, […]

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Enterprise Blockchain Is at a Private-Public Crossroads

January 6, 2021

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Jan 6, 2021 at 2:46 p.m. UTC (Nikita Vasilevskiy/Unsplash) Enterprise Blockchain Is at a Private-Public Crossroads Looking back 12 months, our (Prysm’s) review of 2019 was naive, to say the least. We cited challenges to a successful 2020 for enterprise blockchain. And, while those predictions were not far off, they were overshadowed by a global […]

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This Is What Global Open-Source Money Seems Like

January 3, 2021

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Jan 3, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 3, 2021 at 4:24 p.m. UTC This Is What Global Open-Source Money Seems Like Ludwig Wittgenstein once asked a friend, “tell me, why do people say it is more natural to think that the Sun rotates around the Earth than that the earth is rotating?” The friend […]

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The Rise of Layer 2s Spells End for Altcoins

January 3, 2021

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Jan 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTC The Rise of Layer 2s Spells End for Altcoins Phase 1 of the Bitcoin journey is complete. Over the past 10 years we have seen the Bitcoin network rebuff questions as to whether it would survive as a concept. Today, we see the bitcoin cryptocurrency gaining monetary premium […]

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More Aussies Back Bitcoin, the Underdog

January 2, 2021

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Jan 2, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. UTC More Aussies Back Bitcoin, the Underdog In January this year, the world watched in horror as sky-high fires tore through 44 million hectares of Australian bushland, engulfing property, wildlife and humanity. Then, just as victims were emerging from the ashes, COVID-19 arrived and the local economy went into […]

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