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Consensus Magazine
Crypto 2023
The Year Crypto Yields Blew Up
Centralized interest-bearing accounts stayed artificially high after DeFi yields programmatically went dry. Crypto can be competitive with TradFi, but it needs to remain trans...
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By Alex McDougall
Dec 14, 2022 at 2:33 p.m. UTC
Dec 14, 2022
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Crypto 2023
I, Trading Bot
Algorithms are being unleashed on the crypto markets.
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By Nathan Thompson
Dec 14, 2022 at 2:16 p.m. UTC
Dec 14, 2022
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Crypto 2023
Why Hong Kong Is Pushing for Its Own Central Bank Digital Currency
As a global financial hub, Hong Kong has a vested interest in shaping the development of CBDCs and especially the systems in which they will transact across borders. But the U...
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By Emily Jin
Dec 13, 2022 at 9:47 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
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Crypto 2023
2023: The Year Blockchain Becomes a Sustainability Solution
Blockchain's role in helping the environment can go far beyond energy footprints and carbon credits.
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By Stefan Renton
Dec 13, 2022 at 8:16 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
Crypto 2023Opinion
Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899. (Getty Images)
Consensus Magazine
Crypto 2023
Starlink, Verizon 5G and Crypto: What the New ‘War of the Currents’ Means for Decentralization
A modern-day “War of the Currents” is silently unfolding across blockchain, broadband, existing power lines and even outer space.
Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899. (Getty Images)
By Tim Kravchunovsky
Dec 13, 2022 at 8:01 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
Crypto 2023Opinion
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Consensus Magazine
Crypto 2023
Blockchain vs. Crypto: Not What It Seems
“Blockchain not bitcoin” emerged in 2018 as an attempt by enterprise projects to capitalize on the market’s performance woes – the new version does the same but swaps in “cry...
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By Noelle Acheson
Dec 13, 2022 at 6:54 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
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Crypto 2023
CoinDesk Holiday Crossword
To celebrate the end of a tumultuous year, we present a special edition crossword inspired by recent events. How much can you fill in?
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By CoinDesk Staff
Dec 13, 2022 at 6:07 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
Crypto 2023
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Opinion
Japan Was the Safest Place to Be an FTX Customer
As regulators look to regulate exchanges in light of the FTX's collapse, they would do well to look to Japan, which has some of the most mature rules in the world.
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By JP Koning
Dec 13, 2022 at 3:17 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
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Opinion
How Crypto Can Avoid the Next FTX
Blockchain technology and cryptographic standards like ZK-proofs can help crypto companies and protocols prove they are solvent – even in times of crisis.
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By Shlomit Azgad-TromerMatthew Green
Dec 13, 2022 at 3:14 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
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Crypto 2023
Birth of the Network Nations
Balaji Srinivasan says "network states" – Web3 communities with the capacity for collective actions – can replace traditional geographically-bounded states. His thesis, laid o...
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By Jeff Wilser
Dec 12, 2022 at 8:03 p.m. UTC
Dec 12, 2022
Crypto 2023