Opinion

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele with his wife, Gabriela Rodriguez.
Bitcoin as Legal Tender? Why El Salvador’s Plan Isn’t as Crazy as You Think
El Salvador decided decades ago it didn’t trust itself to manage its own currency. Lately, it may have reason not to trust Washington either.
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Blockchain Games That Gamers Want to Win
Gamers want a great game more than anything else, and crypto hasn't delivered a great game yet.
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The Ransom-Ware
An ode to companies that poorly guard their computer systems and end up paying extortionists bitcoin to unlock them (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling).
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Money Reimagined: The Power of Community
Bitcoin's big Florida meetup and CoinDesk's own $DESK project demonstrate a crypto truth: Community precedes technology when creating money.
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DeFi's Sticky Future
Innovations tend to stack. And there's nothing more stackable than composability and interoperability involving money.
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How Do You Know Crypto Is Winning? Look Where the Talent Is Going
Crypto is poaching top talent from financial and technology giants.
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Carlos Matos promoting Bitconnect
The Lesson of Bitconnect: Promoters Can Be Liable
The SEC has filed charges against five promoters of the alleged crypto fraud. It's a chance to learn from the mistakes of Trevon James and Co.
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Bitcoin Is Batman
Another way of looking at the philosopher Craig Warmke's conception of Bitcoin as a fictional substance.
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Aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., on June 1921.
Black Wall Street 3.0
A new crypto wallet, named for a Tulsa neighborhood destroyed by fire 100 years ago, shows how communities of color can build wealth.
Aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., on June 1921.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC
Disruption in Tether's Value Could Be Crypto Equivalent of 'Breaking the Buck': Former CFTC Chairman
Timothy Massad compared the hypothetical occurrence to the collapse in NAV of the Reserve Primary Fund in September 2008.
Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC