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Finance

Bitcoin's Hedge Potential

View BTC as protection from inept central banks (and, yes, a tool for speculation, too).

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Finance

President Herbert Hoover Saves the Day for a Crypto Bank? Yeah, That’s Weird

Silvergate got propped up by the Federal Home Loan Bank system created in 1932.

President Herbert Hoover as an NFT (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

CoinDesk Research’s 2022 Annual Crypto Review

Even though 2022 was a bear market it was an eventful year for all facets of the crypto industry.

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Markets

What Will It Take for Bitcoin Mining Companies to Survive in 2023?

Some miners have held onto the bitcoin they mined, opting instead to finance operations with debt and other capital, which works really well – until it doesn’t.

¿Qué les espera a las empresas de minería de bitcoin en 2023? (Alfieri/Getty Images)

Finance

5 Crypto Things That Riled Me Up in 2022

In case you were living in a Wi-Fi-less cave, there was plenty of unsavory stuff to pick from!

An angry mob holding torches in a still from the film, 'Frankenstein,' directed by James Whale, 1931.

Finance

Warren’s Reactionary Crypto Policy vs. Dorsey’s Decentralized Social Media Gambit

Policy actions that decry decentralization in response to FTX sort of miss The Point.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions executives of the nation's largest banks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill September 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Finance

Goldman Sachs Is Trying to Make Blockchain Bonds Happen

But it probably won't – for blockchain bonds, tomatoes or whatever.

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Finance

A European Central Bank Blog Decries the End of Bitcoin, and We Aren’t Buying It

Plus: What happens when you go from bitcoin-only to … not?

Another day, another bitcoin doomsayer (DALL-E, CoinDesk)

Finance

Some Things to Be Thankful For, Even Though Everything in Crypto Is On Fire

This has been an overall bad year for crypto, but here are some positive things.

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Finance

Crypto Markets Are Suffering – but Is It Really ‘Contagion’?

Sure, this crypto credit contagion is bad, but it’s unlikely to spread to other markets.

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