Opinion

Opinion

‘The Squeezening’: How the Gamestop Backlash will Curtail Freedom

Gamestop's "squeezening" is likely to increase calls for curbs on "memetic disturbances." That could be dangerous for free speech.

Policy & regulation  ·  28 January 2021
DeFi

What DeFi Has in Common With Cubism

DeFi's innovation system is reminiscent of an art movement that passes ideas back and forth until lasting breakthroughs emerge.

Business  ·  27 January 2021
Opinion

The Bitcoin Paradox

Bitcoin may not be a financial bubble. But, when Bitcoiners reject inconvenient information, it is an epistemic bubble.

Business  ·  27 January 2021
Bitcoin

Bubbles Are Good for Bitcoin

Far from being damaging to bitcoin, bubbles help bring in new users and ultimately accelerate the project's growth.

Markets  ·  26 January 2021
Opinion

4 Ways Blockchain Could Catapult Into the Mainstream

Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction.

Business  ·  26 January 2021
Tether

What Tether Means When It Says It’s ‘Regulated’

Representatives say the $25B stablecoin is "regulated" but the issuer doesn't look like a financial institution bound by norms and laws.

Policy & regulation  ·  26 January 2021
Privacy

We Have Entered the Age of Anonymous Crypto

Spurred by an information crisis and compounding global unrest, privacy has entered public consciousness.

People  ·  25 January 2021
CBDCs

The Future of Money in the Multiverse

It's 2028 and central banks, Big Tech companies and the "deplatformed" are establishing their own worlds of digital money.

Business  ·  25 January 2021
Newsletters

Money Reimagined: Letter to President Biden

President Biden needs to reform the global financial system and avoid a 1930s-style depression. Digital currencies can help.

Policy & regulation  ·  22 January 2021
Privacy

Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity

We have the core tech to enable radically more ethical and beneficial social media networks. Here's what we'll need.

Tech  ·  22 January 2021
DeFi

How Cultural Differences Drive User Adoption in DeFi

Despite being virtually identical products at launch, SushiSwap and Uniswap have taken divergent paths as they respond to users, says Multicoin's principal.

People  ·  21 January 2021
Derivatives

Dear Crypto Derivatives Industry, Let’s Not Repeat 2008

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.

Policy & regulation  ·  20 January 2021
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Is Aiding the Ransomware Industry

We are living in a world where the second-order effects of permissionless money – like the greater use of ransomware – are already evident.

Policy & regulation  ·  19 January 2021
Mining

The US Can Make Bitcoin Mining Greener

With companies like Square announcing environment-focused mining initiatives, the U.S. can take the lead in reducing bitcoin's carbon impact.

Policy & regulation  ·  19 January 2021
Opinion

Fixing Crypto’s Silos

Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability.

People  ·  15 January 2021