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PortuguêsThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingIt’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 of…
Continue ReadingThe recent alliance of pirate academic library Sci-Hub and a blockchain-based domain name system (DNS) was celebrated by the blockchain community. Now, it’s already over. Less than two days after…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency donations are providing a much-needed lifeline to hard-up charities right now. In many countries, the coronavirus pandemic has triggered massive government support packages for businesses disrupted by national lockdowns.…
Continue ReadingGary Gensler, a Washington and Wall Street veteran who has closely studied the cryptocurrency field, is expected to be named chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the next…
Continue ReadingDigital asset custodian Anchorage has nabbed a trade operations veteran from Celsius Network to manage the risks facing its $4 billion crypto vault. The new hire, Asaf Iram, said he…
Continue ReadingThink back to 2017. Crypto was everywhere. The celebrities hawking ICOs included DJ Khaled, “Floyd Crypto Mayweather” and longtime blockchain enthusiast Paris Hilton. The most watched comedy on television, “Big…
Continue ReadingOn Jan. 6, 2021 (or what seems like the 739th day of 2020), a riotous mob stormed the United States Capitol. It has been over 200 years since the last…
Continue ReadingFor all the talk about bitcoin (and broadly crypto) being easier to buy than ever before, Friday morning, as bitcoin was topping $41,000 per coin, I spent hours trying to…
Continue ReadingThe maddest and most poetic experiment of the 2017 bull run was seeding Venezuela with cryptocurrency, expecting it would topple the government. At the time, the Venezuelan state was teetering,…
Continue ReadingModern cryptography is still a relatively young scientific discipline, but its history shows a significant pattern. Most developments are based on research that took place years or even decades before.…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingIn the legacy financial world, yield has dried up. Yields on U.S. Treasury bonds have never been lower. The 10-year Treasury bond now offers you a less than 0.9% return.…
Continue ReadingThere comes a point in every investor’s journey when he must admit he is wrong about something. In my case, I was wrong about bitcoin and whether it would ever be…
Continue ReadingThe macro analyst looks at unexpected sources of strength in the economy. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. Tony Greer is a macro analyst and author of the Morning Navigator Newsletter.…
Continue ReadingPhase 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.…
Continue ReadingIn 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…
Continue ReadingThe prominent gold and bitcoin macro commenter discusses a new generation of institutional investors. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. Dan Tapiero is an investor and entrepreneur with deep experience in…
Continue ReadingThis year has been like no other. A global health pandemic, multiple stock market shocks, the destabilizing of the workforce and many sectors of the economy. After a year of…
Continue ReadingThe podcaster and CEO of Onramp Invest discusses DeFi, income inequality and the opportunity for bitcoin in 2021. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. The wealth adviser and CEO of Onramp…
Continue ReadingIt is clear that crypto is having its institutional moment. The investment decision is moving from speculation to allocation, and we are witnessing the maturation of crypto and digital asset…
Continue ReadingThis year 2020 has seen quite a variety of exciting developments in the blockchain space. To name just a few: the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs)…
Continue ReadingA look at privacy and infrastructure advances that will shape the bitcoin ecosystem in the years to come. Alyse Killeen is the founder and managing partner of StillMark, and has…
Continue ReadingBy late 2013, it was clear crypto assets would be the future of finance. It was the first time bitcoin crossed $1,000. To the cypherpunks’ chagrin, central banks around the…
Continue ReadingIt is often said that Julius Caesar brought the Roman Republic to an end when he crossed the Rubicon River with the 13th Legion of the Roman Republican Army on…
Continue ReadingReflecting on 2020, I struggle to think of another year in recent decades with both so many all-time highs and all-time lows. From the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the global…
Continue ReadingThe Santiago Capital investor takes a look at what 2020 taught us about his notable economic theory. Brent Johnson is an investor at Santiago Capital and the creator of the…
Continue ReadingIn 2020, decentralized finance was Ethereum’s trend of the year – and with that honor came a thousand new terms and even more memes. But more importantly, the success of…
Continue ReadingIt was an exciting year for crypto. Decentralized finance (DeFi) took off like a rocket ship, the non-fungible token (NFT) community accelerated forward and great strides were made on blockchain…
Continue ReadingThe popular economist talks about the K-shaped recovery and why we could be in for more pain in 2021. Daniel Lacalle is the chief economist for Tressis SV and a…
Continue ReadingEvery year since 2016, I’ve made predictions about what the next year will bring for the industry. If you pay attention to the incremental change that occurs year after year,…
Continue ReadingFor the past three years, crypto developers have been fighting a shared enemy, a three-headed beast known as the blockchain trilemma. For every gain made on one front – security…
Continue ReadingA macro and bond specialist joins NLW to discuss the economics of 2021. George Goncalves has been a macro analyst specializing in bonds for more than 20 years. In this…
Continue ReadingSince its cypherpunk beginnings, the blockchain industry has long positioned itself as something on the fringe of mainstream. Yet, today, distributed ledger technology experiments by governments, financial institutions and global…
Continue ReadingI’ve tried various ways to convince my Dad, a typical Chinese boomer, to allocate part of his hard-earned money into bitcoin, but most of my pitches have failed badly. For…
Continue ReadingDuring the second presidential debate in 1992, candidate Ross Perot warned of a “giant sucking sound” of jobs leaving the United States for Mexico if the North American Free Trade…
Continue ReadingIn a departure from our usual Crypto Long & Short format, in honor of the holiday season, I’ve written a poem that reviews the year and reflects some of the…
Continue ReadingOne of the most popular economics and bitcoin YouTube host joins NLW for a conversation about how to make 2021 better. Mark Moss is the host of a fast-growing and popular…
Continue ReadingAfter many years of investment, experimentation and infrastructure improvements, the intersection of three market trends are paving the way for enterprise adoption of public distributed networks: tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi)…
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