Opinion

Opinion

Policy

MakerDAO’s Embrace of Centralized Stablecoins Offers Risks and Rewards

MakerDAO's ingestion of centralized stablecoins may help maintain a $1 peg. But it could also invite more regulatory scrutiny.

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Tech

It’s Time to Launch the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain

We've spent the last nine months testing the life out of this thing. It's time to stake our ideas, money and time on the line.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Fixing the Internet's Big Flaw

In an age when data leads to economic domination, shifting control is a really impactful way to empower individuals.

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Markets

Ethereum Is Manhattan and Everyone Is Moving to the Suburbs

As things stand, only the most liquid, hyperconnected protocols will be able to thrive on Ethereum. That's why many protocols are heading to the "suburbs."

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Finance

Reading Between the Lines of Brian Armstrong's Mission Memo

Brian Armstrong's apolitical stance speaks to an unhealthy Silicon Valley culture where debate is shut down and substantive conversations happen underground.

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Markets

Ethereum Is the Frontier of Financial Innovation

Innovation occurs when the costs of iteration and experimentation reduce.

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Policy

Coinbase's 'Mission' Violates the Spirit of Bitcoin

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wants it both ways: to be apolitical about uncomfortable disruptions and political about Bitcoin's mission to disrupt the world.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Markets

Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work.

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Tech

How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to People

Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change.

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Policy

After BitMEX: Regulation Must Change for the Digital Age

Recent regulatory enforcement against BitMEX shows how out of step the world's financial regulators are with digital innovation.

Arthur Hayes, then-CEO of BitMEX, speaks at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018.