Crypto 2022: Future of Money Week

It gets weirder.

Crypto 2022: Future of Money Week

Tech

The Radical Pluralism of Money

Money must not always be a unit of account, store of value and medium of exchange.

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Tech

Money for Everything: A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized

In a fully tokenized future, everything is money. Is that a good thing?

(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoins’ Tenuous Relationships With Banks

For as much as stablecoins market themselves as a nonbank solution, they still need banks, writes Yale’s Steven Kelly for the Future of Money Week.

A safe deposit box. (Tim Evans/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

The Transhumanist Case for Crypto

If death is a disease, is bitcoin the cure?

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Finance

7 Wild Scenarios for the Future of Money

Here the focus is more on fun than functional, more possible than probable.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

The Downside of Programmable Money

Software bugs aren’t the half of it, says Steven Kelly of Yale in a Q&A with CoinDesk. “You can’t preprogram the exigencies of a crisis.”

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Ethereum in 2022: What Is Money in the Metaverse?

DeFi, NFTs, stablecoins – most of it started on Ethereum. What about next year? This post is part of CoinDesk’s Future of Money Week.

(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)

Finance

The Future of Money: A History

Accounting has defined civilization for centuries. And, now thanks to crypto, we’re going to see accounting 3.0. This essay is part of CoinDesk’s Future of Money Week.

(Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)

Finance

Who Sets the Rules of Bitcoin as Nation-States and Corps Roll In

Can a small team of Core developers protect bitcoin’s integrity now it’s a matter of geopolitical relevance? This article is part of CoinDesk’s Future of Money Week.

As Bitcoin gains global prominence, governments or corporations might find reason to interfere with its rules. Can they? (Getty Images)