Gamestop's "squeezening" is likely to increase calls for curbs on "memetic disturbances." That could be dangerous for free speech.
DeFi's innovation system is reminiscent of an art movement that passes ideas back and forth until lasting breakthroughs emerge.
Bitcoin may not be a financial bubble. But, when Bitcoiners reject inconvenient information, it is an epistemic bubble.
Far from being damaging to bitcoin, bubbles help bring in new users and ultimately accelerate the project's growth.
Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction.
Representatives say the $25B stablecoin is "regulated" but the issuer doesn't look like a financial institution bound by norms and laws.
Spurred by an information crisis and compounding global unrest, privacy has entered public consciousness.
It's 2028 and central banks, Big Tech companies and the "deplatformed" are establishing their own worlds of digital money.
President Biden needs to reform the global financial system and avoid a 1930s-style depression. Digital currencies can help.
We have the core tech to enable radically more ethical and beneficial social media networks. Here's what we'll need.
Despite being virtually identical products at launch, SushiSwap and Uniswap have taken divergent paths as they respond to users, says Multicoin's principal.
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.
We are living in a world where the second-order effects of permissionless money – like the greater use of ransomware – are already evident.
With companies like Square announcing environment-focused mining initiatives, the U.S. can take the lead in reducing bitcoin's carbon impact.
Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability.