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CFTC Enforcement Director McDonald to Leave This Week
6.10.2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Tuesday Division of Enforcement Director James McDonald will depart the agency this Thursday, Oct. 8. McDonald has served as director of Enforcement since April 2017
Guggenheim, MoMA-Collected Artist to Release Digital Artwork on the Blockchain
6.10.2020
A prominent Taiwanese-American multimedia artist considered a pioneer of internet-based art is releasing her work on blockchain-based platform MakersPlace
Are Central Bank Coins the End of Financial Privacy?
5.10.2020
As the European Union gets more serious about a digital euro, most central bank digital currencies intend to remove the anonymity of cash
Styling Complex Labels
5.10.2020
Danielle Romo covers the HTML pattern you need when you have a wordy <label> with fancy styling for an <input type="radio">.
The trick? The ol’ <span class="hidden-visually"> that contains the label that you want to be read, and a <span aria-hidden="true"> with...
US Senator Toomey Highlights Digital Currency Regs as He Eyes Banking Panel Chairmanship
5.10.2020
Senate Banking Committee member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Monday that he intends to take up digital currency regulation and payments system reform if he becomes the committee’s next chairman
Meet the Yield Farmers Plowing Cryptocurrency’s Riskiest Trend
5.10.2020
Yield farming could result in promising developments in the DeFi ecosystem. Nonetheless, each yield farmer told CoinDesk the same thing: This stuff is really, really risky
Confessions of a Sharding Skeptic
4.10.2020
CoinDesk spoke with developers about the kinks in Ethereum 2.0's sharding-based scaling approach that still need to be worked out
Inflation Is the Cruelest Tax
4.10.2020
A reading of a new piece on inflation from the Wall Street Journal that NLW argues shows a shifting mainstream narrative
Abkhazia Lifts Two-Year Ban on Bitcoin Mining, Moves to Regulate the Sector
3.10.2020
Abkhazia, the self-governing but disputed territory of just 245,000 people sandwiched between Russia and Georgia, has lifted its two-year ban on cryptocurrency mining. The ban came into effect in December 2018 after a surge in mining activity left the region facing an energy crisis. Now,...
‘The Fed Meetings Are a Dead Spectator Sport’ – Best of The Breakdown September 2020
3.10.2020
A monthly recap featuring conversations with Luke Gromen, Raoul Pal, Tavi Costa, Sven Henrich, Corey Hoffstein and Michael Saylor
Every Credit Card a Tribe, Every Crypto Coin a Scaling Debate
3.10.2020
Lana Swartz's "New Money" is a book that will force crypto users to ask: What does using ETH or BTC or XLM or ATOM say about me?
Stacking Satoshis: Leveraging Defi Applications to Earn More Bitcoin
2.10.2020
As decentralized finance (defi) has become more popular, digital currency proponents are making money off of more than 140 yield-bearing cryptocurrencies. While most of the defi ecosystem revolves around the Ethereum network, a number of people leverage these defi applications in order to earn more...
‘Good Reason to Worry’: What the BitMEX Indictment Means for DeFi and Bitcoin, Feat. Stephen Palley and Preston Byrne
2.10.2020
Crypto legal experts join to discuss the U.S. government’s case against BitMEX and its implications for the broader ecosystem
Cosmos Gains Traction in India Amid Broader Crypto Resurgence
2.10.2020
Cosmos and its ATOM token are finding success among university students in India during the 2020 bull market
10 Popular Investing Beliefs We Should Be Questioning
1.10.2020
NLW dives into a viral twitter thread asking people which financial conventional wisdom they disagree with
Why Hardnosed Bitcoiners Should Learn to Love DeFi
1.10.2020
Stacking sats and decentralized finance are more similar economic modes than most realize
Crypto Bets on the US Election Show Joe Biden Winning the Presidency by 60%
1.10.2020
During the first half of the year, betting portals that allow people to wager cryptocurrencies on the upcoming U.S. election had shown Donald Trump winning the election. However, after Tuesday evening’s Presidential Debate, betting markets like Cloudbet show Joe Biden’s chances...
Thirst Traps Explode on NFT Platforms, With Predictably Controversial Results
30.9.2020
Sexy collectibles are taking off across NFT platforms like Rarible. Could this be the crypto version of OnlyFans?
DeFi Summer; Bitcoin Fall
30.9.2020
The attention may have been with DeFi when it was warm, but as the cold winds of COVID-19 return fears and election volatility blow, bitcoin is resuming narrative dominance
American Economist Stephen Roach: ‘U.S. Dollar in the Early Stages of Sharp Decent’
30.9.2020
American economist and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Stephen Roach said on Sunday that he believes the U.S. dollar will “crash faster and harder.” Roach said similar statements during an interview back in June, and his latest commentary stresses that people should...