As countries like China and Sweden rush to develop digital currencies, the U.S. can afford to take its time.
The great Twitter hack of 2020 highlighted the scariest thing about crypto: being tricked by scams. Here is how to avoid being a victim.
Next to the frightening creatures of the legacy financial system, bitcoin is the normal, wholesome outlier, like the niece from TV’s “The Munsters.”
The missions of programmable money and autonomous finance overlap, so it's surprising people from crypto and fintech don't collaborate more.
The CEO of Binance on why DeFi will come to dominate CeFi.
The crypto world eschewed trust in favor of transparency. But transparency doesn’t solve the problem of untrustworthiness in financial markets.
Identity is one of our most fundamental human rights. In the age of surveillance, commodification and centralization, it is under threat.
Bitcoin, fintech and DeFi can help Latin America become an interconnected and inclusive regional economy.
As DeFi does away with middlemen in finance, "DeOps" could reduce the need for intermediaries in large-scale supply systems.
A retail CBDC or an indirect one? Synthetic? An API approach? How central banks implement digital currencies will have seismic implications.
Adoption by criminal enterprises is evidence of the product/market fit for censorship-resistant tech and an indicator of whether innovation will see usage in the non-criminal world.
NYDFS proposals following the Twitter hack are a warning to everyone using centrally controlled "designated" platforms.
Laws like the Bank Secrecy Act, which turns 50 this week, have helped stop money laundering and terrorism. But KYC and AML requirements have served to harm the world's neediest through higher costs and reduced services.
The decentralized design of the web gives it the potential to be more privacy-preserving than any other system. Yet, there are long-range threats at play.
Tokens continue to show little correlation between usage and value, confounding efforts to build better valuation methods.