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Opinion

Opinion

Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'

When supposedly safe investments like bonds and stocks underperform, what does that mean for our view of apparently risky investments like bitcoin? Noelle Acheson offers her thoughts.

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NFTs Are the Ultimate Disruptor of Hollywood's Entertainment Status Quo

Web3 technology is already being used in the film industry to build communities and monetize niche content offerings. NFTs are the next big step.

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Sen. Warren’s ‘Anti-Crypto Army’ Is Just the Beginning of Crypto’s Politicization

As the 2024 U.S. election cycle approaches don’t be surprised to hear politicians discussing bitcoin, crypto and CBDCs.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass) has vowed to raise an "anti-crypto" army. (Council Bluffs Town Hall 10/Wikimedia Commons)

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Cassandra Rosenthal: Web3 and AI Is the Next Chapter in Storytelling

In a CoinDesk interview, Cassandra Rosenthal, co-CEO of Web3 entertainment firm Kaleidoco, shares how artificial intelligence is redefining the future of Web3 storytelling.

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The Crypto Industry Needs to Fix Itself Before It Can Progress

It's fair to blame regulatory agencies and Congress for failure to properly oversee crypto. But the industry also needs to look to its own failings, says William Mougayar.

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USDC's Depeg Laid Bare the Risks Traditional Finance Poses to Stablecoins

A Moody's analyst examines how the recent banking crisis spilled into crypto, and why alternatives to stablecoins such as tokenized bank deposits and CBDCs may be needed to prevent contagion.

CEO Jeremy Allaire's Circle is part of the consortium behind USDC. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong

Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack writes about the seeming return of bitcoin's inflation hedge thesis, and what it takes to get people into bitcoin.

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What Hindenburg Research’s Takedown of Block Says About Money and Crime

Expecting centralized money services to halt crime only helps politicize money and disempower users.

A new research report alleges widespread illicit misuse of the Cash App payments platform. The bigger risk may be centralized, politicized payments services themselves. (Shutterstock)

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Biden Administration Is Politicizing Crypto

With Coinbase receiving a Wells Notice from the SEC, and the CFTC suing Binance, it feels like the crypto industry is at war with the U.S. government. This could get bad.

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Web3 Should Be Built on Bitcoin

The Bitcoin community must eliminate its anti-innovation attitude to fulfill the first cryptocurrency's potential, or risk losing talent and capital to developer-friendly chains like Ethereum.

Lolli CEO Alex Adelman says Bitcoin has an opportunity to fulfill its potential by becoming a hub of digital experimentation. (Josh Olalde/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)