Crypto Long & Short


Markets

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)

Finance

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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Markets

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)

Markets

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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Finance

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)

Finance

Bitcoin Might, in Fact, Be the Great ‘Equalizer’

A new global survey drills in on the perception of Bitcoin around the world, and the findings appear to be generally optimistic for global equity.

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Layer 2

China Can’t Seem to Stop Bitcoin Mining

Reported hashrate fell to zero for two months in China last year, but it has since returned rather abruptly.

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Markets

The Collapse of UST and LUNA Was Devastating, but There Is Still Hope for Crypto

When a prominent stablecoin and the token that backs it failed, the broader ecosystem certainly was dealt a blow, but ultimately it is surviving.

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Opinion

The Fed Raised Rates and Markets Freaked Out

After Jerome Powell’s press conference, all markets reacted aggressively and then swiftly retraced their moves as market sentiment shifted overnight.

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