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PortuguêsThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Last week the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss how the MakerDAO DeFi stablecoin actually works and what happened during the…
Continue Reading“I think the right lesson to draw from all of this is that a global order needs to be based on a distributed operating system, not on a centralized architecture…”…
Continue ReadingAs another unprecedented week winds down, @NLW breaks down unlimited QE, digital dollars, the last break of institutional trust and more. In this episode of The Breakdown, @NLW reflects on…
Continue ReadingAs BlackRock gets appointed to oversee bailouts to companies including BlackRock, how do we make an insane moment lead to good? The U.S. Senate passed $2 trillion in stimulus. That…
Continue ReadingAfter three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch is back in part 2 of her six-part documentary podcast series. Presented in audio and…
Continue ReadingA U.S. court order may have barred Telegram from launching its blockchain, but that doesn’t mean others can’t. So says the TON Community Foundation, a group of more than two…
Continue ReadingLegislation introduced in the U.S. Congress this week signals the Overton Window – a metric of what’s politically feasible – is opening in favor of national digital currencies. While it’s…
Continue ReadingAs the crypto community digests a new wave of government intervention and stimulus, Michael Casey and Noelle Acheson join for a discussion. CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey and Head…
Continue ReadingA wide ranging conversation with the founder of Morgan Creek about how we got to shutdowns, buybacks, bailouts and where we go from here. Mark Yusko is the founder of…
Continue ReadingThe market reacts as the U.S. Federal Reserve announced effectively unlimited capital injections including a new array of direct asset purchase tools. Last October, Ikigai Asset Management’s Travis Kling predicted…
Continue ReadingThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. From Boeing to Bitcoin in this week’s discussion we’re talking about our disrupted reality, the politically expedient path forward, why…
Continue ReadingCoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by cognitive economist Leigh Caldwell, author of “The Psychology of Price,” to talk about mental health and cryptocurrency in a time of coronavirus crisis.…
Continue ReadingAn off-the-cuff conversation about state power, nuance in an age of tribalism and where bitcoin meets politics, with Peter McCormack. Peter McCormack is the host of What Bitcoin Did and…
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 pandemic arrives as Americans’ trust in institutions is faltering. According to a January 2019 Pew Research Center survey, only 35 percent of adults have a great deal or…
Continue ReadingCoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics…
Continue ReadingAfter three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch shares her experiences in part one of this new six-part documentary podcast series. Listen/subscribe to…
Continue ReadingMost burgeoning crypto enthusiasts go through a phase in life where they think to themselves: “Bitcoin is neat, but it would be so much better if it could just do…
Continue ReadingMichael J. Casey is CoinDesk’s chief content officer. The views expressed here are his own. Due to a prior medical condition that puts me at higher risk, I made a…
Continue ReadingIn this episode of The Breakdown, NLW talks open source ventilators, overreactions in monetary policy and the slippery, sticky slope towards helicopter money with Bruce Fenton. In his daily coronavirus…
Continue ReadingHistory can come at you fast. I live in Spain. Not on the balmy coasts – I live in Madrid, smack in the middle of the peninsula. Surprisingly, COVID-19 did…
Continue ReadingIn the wake of Trump’s promise to “go big” on stimulus, where does bitcoin and its safe haven narrative stand? President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced a significant…
Continue ReadingOver a dozen Ethereum fans who participated in the EthCC conference in Paris during the first week of March have since tested positive for coronavirus, according to public lists compiled…
Continue ReadingWell, that escalated quickly. As we catch breath with the pace of COVID19 related disruptions and happenings, this post will update frequently with the latest perspectives, community support efforts, and…
Continue ReadingFar from reassuring the markets, the Federal Reserve’s dramatic action over the weekend seems to have spooked them instead. Over the weekend, the Fed decided it couldn’t wait for Wednesday’s…
Continue ReadingMichael J. Casey is CoinDesk’s chief content officer. The views expressed here are his own. This article is the first in an occasional series. I made a difficult decision Sunday.…
Continue ReadingThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Last week the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and to revisit Johnston’s…
Continue ReadingCoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by VR meetup organizer Udi Wertheimer to talk about how bitcoin (BTC) fits into the broader cypherpunk movement. The cypherpunk movement has expanded far…
Continue ReadingMassive and novel government intervention in markets is now a foregone conclusion, but what happens to bitcoin (BTC) as the dust settles? Yesterday, the Federal Reserve’s New York branch announced…
Continue ReadingFrom today’s buy order activity to bitcoin’s historic ability to bounce back after being pronounced dead, a few calming notes in a day of chaos. The coronavirus got really extra…
Continue ReadingAnonymous bitcoiners are taking the search for a coronavirus vaccine into their own hands, bypassing academia, pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The “biohacking” effort by…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) prices slid for a fifth straight day, but the decline paled in comparison with the steep sell-off seen in traditional financial markets. New warnings from authorities over the…
Continue ReadingMarket theorist and founder of Epsilon Theory Ben Hunt joins NLW for a conversation about the market and narratives in the age of coronavirus. The week of Feb. 12, the…
Continue ReadingAn update on the safe haven narrative as bitcoin (BTC) continues to move with equities plus a crypto startup fundraising roundup Whatever you thought of the uncorrelated or safe haven…
Continue ReadingCircle’s full-tilt pivot into stablecoins is nearly complete. The payments startup intends to sell SeedInvest, the crowdfunding platform it bought a year ago, and focus its remaining assets on developing…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s (BTC) price has cratered but that’s nothing compared to the broader market havoc. From the coronavirus scare to an oil price war, a confluence of factors is aligning to…
Continue ReadingDenelle Dixon is the CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source blockchain network that connects…
Continue ReadingCoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how…
Continue ReadingThe former lead maintainer of Monero and co-founder of Tari speaks about the state of global privacy As the coronavirus took hold in China, officials in Hubei province tracked potential…
Continue ReadingBinance US CEO Catherine Coley and Stellar Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon join CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen to debunk myths about gender for International Women’s Day. There’s a common myth that…
Continue ReadingYorke Rhodes III, a CoinDesk columnist, co-founded Blockchain at Microsoft and is Principal Program Manager, Azure Blockchain Engineering and Board Member of Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition and Enterprise Ethereum…
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