The Shadow of Satoshi’s Ghost: Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters
How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies. On Wednesday, a batch…
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Blockchain Bites: Iran and Russia Revisit Crypto Regulations, Bitcoin Pizza Day 10 Years Later
News ‘Diet’Laszlo Hanyecz has the honor of conducting the first commercial Bitcoin transaction: trading 10,000 bitcoin for about $30 worth…
Designer Money for a Machine-Run Post-COVID World
A headline in MIT Technology Review caught my attention this week: “The pandemic is emptying call centers. AI chatbots are…
Finance and the Real Economy Can’t Stay Out of Sync Forever
Jill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the…
Market Wrap: Traders ‘Buy the Dip’ as Bitcoin Hovers at $9,000
Bitcoin fell for a second day, extending a downdraft triggered by Wednesday’s revelation that a member of the cryptocurrency community…
Iranian President Calls for National Crypto Mining Strategy
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the government to draw up a renewed national approach for the emerging crypto industry.…
Crypto ‘Gray’ Markets Could Be Unintended Consequence of FATF Travel Rule
Could an overbearance of regulation divide the crypto space and create a “gray” market composed of unregulated exchanges, where digital…