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2020

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Markets
History
8 Historical Analogies That Help Explain the Madness of 2020
From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year.
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By Nathaniel Whittemore
Sep 4, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Sep 4, 2020
HistoryPodcastsThe Breakdown2020
Ethereum’s Formative Journey to Eth 2.0
Video
2020
Ethereum’s Formative Journey to Eth 2.0
On July 30, 2015, Ethereum was born as the first general purpose blockchain platform. It paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology different from bitcoi...
Ethereum’s Formative Journey to Eth 2.0
By CoinDesk Staff
Jul 29, 2020 at 7:03 p.m. UTC
Jul 29, 2020
2020EthereumVitalik Buterin
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Markets
Bloomberg
Sorry, Bloomberg: Here Are 6 Reasons Why 2020 Is a Great Year for Bitcoin
A Bloomberg senior editor today argued there were six reasons why 2020 was bad for bitcoin. Here’s the opposite case.
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By Nathaniel Whittemore
Jun 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 15, 2020
BloombergBitcoinPodcastsThe Breakdown2020Joe Weisenthal