Crypto Long & Short

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The Investor’s Definitive Guide to Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake (Abridged)
It’s not really about which is better; it’s about trade-offs.
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Move Over, Ethereum – Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Apps, Too
Bitcoin’s dominant scaling system continues to grow despite a formidable bear market.
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If the SEC decided tomorrow that bitcoin was a security, it would change nothing about bitcoin fundamentally.   (Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
Philosophically, It Doesn’t Matter Whether Cryptos Are Securities; Practically, It Does
When a main U.S. regulatory body defers to Crypto Twitter for leads on securities law violations, you know these categories are subjective.
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Accounting Rules Make the Outcome of Tesla’s Bitcoin Sale Unclear
After the car maker sold 75% of its bitcoin, Twitter piled on the company for losing money on the sale even though it didn’t.
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Crypto Is Trying Out Traditional Finance’s Failures in Hyperspeed, but It’s Going to Be Fine
What is going to be most interesting here is seeing what happens to bitcoin and other cryptos during these Hard Times.
Panic on Wall Street, Oct. 24, 1929. (Associated Press/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Hard Times in Crypto: the Unintended Consequences of Going Public
The third and final reflection on a series of risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.
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Interdependent protocols and black-box platforms make for a dicey pairing. (Edge2Edge Media/Unsplash)
Opaque Platforms and Intertwined Protocols Pose Big Risk to Crypto
Second article in a series about risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.
Interdependent protocols and black-box platforms make for a dicey pairing. (Edge2Edge Media/Unsplash)

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Hard Times in Crypto Lead to Price and Macro Risk
Just the first in a series of risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.
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Dusty, a Bitcoin developer, presents Lightning Network splicing which will allow payment channels to easily fluctuate in size. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)
Texas Feels Like Bitcoin Country (Maybe Because I Was There for a Bitcoin Conference)
A Bitcoin developer conference last week put three important Bitcoin themes in focus: lightning, design and education.
Dusty, a Bitcoin developer, presents Lightning Network splicing which will allow payment channels to easily fluctuate in size. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)