3 Giga-Brained Ideas From Consensus Day 2
Crypto shows that ideas can be valuable, even if they’re not useful … yet.
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Apr 28, 2023 at 12:16 a.m. UTC
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How Effective Altruism Power Brokers Helped Make Sam Bankman-Fried
Academic philosophers covered for Sam Bankman-Fried’s moral failings as long ago as 2018 – and reaped the rewards.
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Mar 17, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. UTC
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Retraction: BAYC Founder Opinion Piece
The content of the previously published piece did not meet CoinDesk's editorial standards.
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Jan 31, 2023 at 3:28 p.m. UTC
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Understanding the FTX Fallout From the Eyes of a Bitcoiner
The financialization, tokenization and the chase of short-term profits seen across Sam Bankman-Fried's trading empire is peak Wall Street.
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Nov 19, 2022 at 4:14 p.m. UTC
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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Effective’ Altruism Blew Up FTX
The Alameda Research and FTX founder believed he had singular insight into how to fix the world's problems. Instead, he wound up exemplifying them.
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Nov 11, 2022 at 5:06 p.m. UTC
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The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Culture
Crypto's first token created a culture and then a monster.
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Oct 11, 2022 at 11:46 a.m. UTC
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What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?
Two environmentally focused fictional microgenres have become cornerstones of the Web3 aesthetic. Here’s how that happened.
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Sep 20, 2022 at 8:59 p.m. UTC
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Who Is Building Ethereum's Public Goods?
The aim of Web3 isn’t exploitation, but "regeneration" of nonstate and noncorporate infrastructure.
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Jul 20, 2022 at 3:02 p.m. UTC
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The One Word That Defines Ethereum’s Goals
Bitcoiners aim for "hyperbitcoinization;" the world computer is built for "hyperregenization."
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Jun 27, 2022 at 4:12 p.m. UTC
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What Happens When You Die in the Metaverse?
Ethereum’s founder proposed “soulbound tokens” to give digital identity value. Is there a price to be paid?
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May 26, 2022 at 6:50 p.m. UTC
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