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‘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
How Cultural Differences Drive User Adoption in DeFi
21.1.2021
Despite being virtually identical products at launch, SushiSwap and Uniswap have taken divergent paths as they respond to users, says Multicoin's principal
Dear Crypto Derivatives Industry, Let’s Not Repeat 2008
20.1.2021
As the crypto derivatives industry begins to take off, it needs to avoid the lack of transparency that plagued the industry in the 2000s, when the financial system collapsed
Bitcoin Is Aiding the Ransomware Industry
19.1.2021
We are living in a world where the second-order effects of permissionless money – like the greater use of ransomware – are already evident
The US Can Make Bitcoin Mining Greener
19.1.2021
With companies like Square announcing environment-focused mining initiatives, the U.S. can take the lead in reducing bitcoin's carbon impact
Fixing Crypto’s Silos
15.1.2021
Our fragmented status quo - thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps - will not work indefinitely without interoperability
Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Warning for Central Banks
15.1.2021
Bitcoin's rising price reflects declining faith in the existing financial system. Will central bankers like Christine Lagarde take notice?
What Crypto Can Expect From Gary Gensler at the SEC
14.1.2021
A ex-CFTC official on how Biden's putative pick for SEC head might approach the office and the crypto-related issues before it
Twitter, Trump and the ‘Private Company’ Fallacy
14.1.2021
Defending deplatforming as the right of private companies assumes that truly private companies are possible. They may not be
The Downside of Crypto Donations
13.1.2021
Nonprofits and their supporters are turning to crypto to avoid taxmen, middlemen and restrictive lawmakers. Unless they do their homework, nonprofits face restrictions of a different kind
FinCEN’s Crypto Surveillance Rule Violates the US Constitution
13.1.2021
Proposals requiring crypto companies to report transactions amount to "mass surveillance" and flout the Fourth Amendment