Bitcoin Should Change ... Slowly
Reconsidering the first cryptocurrency's slow-and-steady approach to development, as Ethereum's "Merge" nears.
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Sep 13, 2022 at 1:47 p.m. UTC
Sep 13, 2022
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Bitcoiners Owe Andrew Ross Sorkin a Big Thank You
By successfully campaigning to further politicize the payments system, The New York Times columnist just made value-neutral cryptocurrency networks more valuable in the long t...
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Sep 12, 2022 at 3:57 p.m. UTC
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There’s No Future for DeFi Without Regulation
America’s first experiment with DeFi didn’t end well and the second one is going badly, too. Can we learn the lessons of history to make the third try a success?
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Sep 12, 2022 at 2:39 p.m. UTC
Sep 12, 2022
A Stable Asset to Law Enforcement
Far from facilitating crime, stablecoins like tether and USDC are increasingly useful for fighting it, says a leading white collar investigations lawyer.
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Sep 12, 2022 at 2:39 p.m. UTC
Sep 12, 2022
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‘Wall Street’ Doesn’t Need Bitcoin; Bitcoin Doesn’t Need ‘Wall Street’
... Or any other institutions for that matter.
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Sep 11, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
Sep 11, 2022
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A Currency Crisis Looms: We Need a New Model
Geopolitical issues and rising U.S. interest rates are boosting the dollar and threatening emerging-market currencies. It's time for change.
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Sep 9, 2022 at 5:20 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2022
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Brian Armstrong's Finest Hour: Backing Tornado Cash Suit Against Treasury
Coinbase could be putting itself at risk by suing the federal government over its sanction of the privacy-preserving Tornado Cash protocol.
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Sep 9, 2022 at 3:57 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2022
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What Post-Roe America Tells Us About the Need for Privacy, Web3
Control over our online data is intimately linked with bodily autonomy.
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Sep 9, 2022 at 1:29 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2022
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It’s Time to End Maximalism in Crypto
The stakes are too high to turn on each other now.
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Sep 8, 2022 at 7:59 p.m. UTC
Sep 8, 2022
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Why DeFi Protocols Are Limiting ETH Borrowing Ahead of Ethereum’s Merge
Aave and Compound voted for precautionary measures to prevent airdrop hoarders from sucking up their liquidity.
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Sep 8, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. UTC
Sep 8, 2022