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Mt. Gox: What We Still Don’t Know 10 Years After the Collapse
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collapse of bitcoin exchange MtGox, Mark Hunter, author of “Ultimate Catastrophe: How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly K...
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Stablecoins: Roman Coins or Spanish Doubloons for the Modern Era
Borderless by design, these modern digital tokens can make cross-border commerce much cheaper and easier.
Roman coins (Wikimedia Commons)

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3 Giga-Brained Ideas From Consensus Day 2
Crypto shows that ideas can be valuable, even if they’re not useful … yet.
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Katherine Dee, aka, Default Friend speaks at Consensus 2022 (CoinDesk)
Who You Really Are: A Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus
The internet phenomenon and historian explains why true anonymity is hard within internet culture.
Katherine Dee, aka, Default Friend speaks at Consensus 2022 (CoinDesk)

Crypto markets were roiled in 2021 by the billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, tweet by tweet. (Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)
Volatility Ruled Crypto Markets in 2021, From $69K Bitcoin to Elon Musk’s ‘Dogecoin to the Moooonn’
NFTs exploded, Coinbase stock went public, El Salvador bought the dip and China cracked down on bitcoin miners, while Solana’s SOL tokens and Polygon’s MATIC shot up by multip...
Crypto markets were roiled in 2021 by the billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, tweet by tweet. (Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth
The 50th edition of the “Money Reimagined” podcast features one of crypto’s most original thinkers.
Money Reimagined Podcast Cover

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Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 5, 2021
With bitcoin breaking above $50K plus a brief look at the “money stack” and how crypto could change it, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Free expression has been made more complicated with the times and the tech.
Bitcoin’s Censorship-Resistance Was a Step Change in History
Blockchain technology put rocket fuel into the internet's ability to defy censorship, turning what was once a conversation about the appropriate limits of speech into a matter...
Free expression has been made more complicated with the times and the tech.

SCMP Newspapers As China Presses Alibaba to Sell Media Assets
South China Morning Post to Mint Historical Records as NFTs
The SCMP introduced its ARTIFACT standard for recording historical accounts and assets on the blockchain as NFTs.
SCMP Newspapers As China Presses Alibaba to Sell Media Assets

Nobody Saw Inflation Coming in the 1960s, but It Could Be Back: Economist
Very few of today's bond portfolio managers and traders can remember the last inflation shock, but that does not make a new shock less likely.