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Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long (CoinDesk TV)
What Now for Crypto Banking?
Regulators are leery of traditional banks offering services to crypto companies, and wary of specialist crypto banks, like Custodia, with new business models. Frances Coppola...
Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long (CoinDesk TV)
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After FTX: Explaining the Difference Between Liquidity and Insolvency
Did FTX fall because of a “liquidity crisis” or a “run on the bank,” or was it insolvency? The language matters.
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Crypto Can Help With Elon Musk’s Twitter Identity Issue
The Blue Bird site faces a classic “Byzantine Generals” problem that Bitcoin solved.
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New York, 1907 (New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons)
Crypto’s 1907 Moment
Financial stability ultimately depends on the trustworthiness of people, not the reliability of technology.
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Banks Aren’t Going to 'HODL' Bitcoin
New proposals from the Bank for International Settlements are unlikely to lead banks to hold bitcoin. But they could open the door to CBDCs, says our columnist.
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Why This Crypto Crash Is Different
There can be no return to the highly leveraged, fractionally reserved cryptocurrency system whose illusory riches are now giving way to real losses, says our columnist.
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No, the UK Is Not Going to Make USDC and USDT Legal Tender
For “legalize” read “regulate.”
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Why Stablecoin Interest Rates Are So Damn High
Or, why Jeremy Allaire can't stop printing.
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Monitors in Times Square display the Coinbase logo during the company's initial public offering. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
The SEC to Coinbase: Crypto Banking Is Still Banking
Coinbase is not the first would-be crypto lender to run into trouble for trying to act like a bank, says our columnist.
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Regulating Stablecoins for What They Are
Stablecoins redefine the nature of money. Stop trying to regulate them as if they are nothing new.
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