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Bitcoin is officially mainstream. By the end of the last mega-bull market in 2017, most of the world had heard of bitcoin. But after Tesla recently...
It’s Gary’s day. Gary Gensler, a former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is due before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee...
Welcome to Money Reimagined. A lot of red in crypto markets this week. The sell-off has likely given pause to latecomers. Among crypto old-timers,...
When predicting how the cryptocurrency economy will evolve, many people have looked to the start of the internet itself. They imagine certain...
Finally, what we’ve been waiting for: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commisison has published Coinbase’s S-1, clearing the way for a direct...
But is it art? It’s the same overwrought quandary that pops up every time technology invents a new kind of paintbrush. And with digital art and...
Last week, CoinDesk was served a powerful reminder that the ability to disseminate information in the Web 2.0 era remains subject to the permission...
Money is both a store of value and a medium of exchange. People want to hold it as part of their wealth and they also need to spend it on food,...
Gary Gensler ran the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after the 2008 financial crisis. Now, he’ll get a chance to run its securities-...
Welcome to State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. I’m your host, Nikhilesh De. The...
Traditional finance is often viewed as the antithesis of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. However, there should be, and needs to be, an overlap...
The capital markets feel like one giant game. With the profound volatility of crypto assets, the billions of issuance in special purpose...
One of the most iconic moments of the past week was when Keith Gill, otherwise known as Reddit trader DeepF**kingValue, testified in front of the...
In old gaming arcades there used to be two fighting games competing for attention. One was Street Fighter, and the other Mortal Kombat. You could...
Nigeria is committed to building its digital economy, but the central bank’s recent cryptocurrency prohibition counteracts this goal and fuels...
Welcome to Money Reimagined. I’m on vacation. So this week’s main-bar column comes to you from Executive Editor Marc Hochstein. In it, Marc...
Every asset that moves fast attracts the B-word. But what the last few decades of research in finance has taught us is that it’s not so easy to...
Imagine the following scenario: Sometime in 2021, financial regulators declare that all stablecoin owners must be verified. What would happen to...
Nothing says 2021 like dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency that has recently skyrocketed in value, thanks in part to the support of Elon Musk and...
The recent GameStop short squeeze has brought decentralized finance (DeFi) into mainstream public consciousness. Well-known crypto influencers such...
Dogecoin is not a cryptocurrency you would expect to read about much in this column since it is not exactly an “institutional grade” asset. It has...
I have spent my entire professional career devising novel ways to invest in real estate, and recently I have been spending a lot of time in...
There’s been renewed interest in bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with the nomination of Gary Gensler to head the Securities and Exchange...
Welcome to Money Reimagined. Well, this past week felt historic. As bitcoin surged to all-time highs and found its way into TV studios and onto...
Arguably, Brian Brooks has done more than anyone to spur the epic bull run of the last few months. The former head of the Office of the Comptroller...
Over the past year, demand for regulated crypto investment products has soared. The increasing variety of exchange-traded products (ETPs) listed on...