Books

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview
What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

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How the Tech Elite Plans to Escape an 'Apocalypse' of Its Own Making
An excerpt from legendary tech reporter Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires."
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Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 27, 2022
With crypto market sentiment growing increasingly bearish and a look at 10 recommended books to learn more about the story of money and crypto, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is bac...
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How Misinformation on ‘Book Twitter’ Killed a Literary NFT Project
“Realms of Ruin” used the Solana blockchain for a reason. That didn’t stop people from accusing it of ruining the environment.
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Is the Dollar Doomed?
In this excerpt from “The Future of Money,” author Eswar Prasad examines the forces – the rise of bitcoin and stablecoins and foreign currency competition – threatening the do...
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Central Banks vs. Private Currencies: ‘The Future of Money’ With Economist Eswar Prasad
Economist Eswar Prasad’s latest book is an ambitious overview of the changing nature of money.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "Black Swan," "Antifragile" and "Skin in the Game."
Nassim Taleb, Erstwhile Bitcoin Admirer, Publishes Paper Trashing It
Bitcoin "can be neither a long or short term store of value (its expected value is no higher than 0)," writes the "Black Swan" author.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "Black Swan," "Antifragile" and "Skin in the Game."

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Every Credit Card a Tribe, Every Crypto Coin a Scaling Debate
Lana Swartz's "New Money" is a book that will force crypto users to ask: What does using ETH or BTC or XLM or ATOM say about me?
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