Opinion


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How to Stop Illegal Activity on Tornado Cash (Without Using Sanctions)

Rather than sanctioning code, U.S. authorities should have targeted the human intermediaries.

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Breaking Down the SEC and CFTC’s Autumn Wave of Enforcement Actions

Critics claim the regulators’ enforcement-first approach sets dangerous precedents in the absence of clear guidance for projects.

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Ethereum’s Merge Was a Public Policy Miracle, so When Is the Congressional Hearing?

The Merge is a great example of the benefits of blockchain technology and it deserves attention from Congress.

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Worried About a Financial Crisis? Enter – Self Custody.

Placing bitcoin in cold storage won't prevent losses, but it can eliminate counterparty risk.

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The Problem Tornado Cash Raises About Base Layer Censorship on Ethereum

Requiring validators and others to censor blocks would be an unwarranted expansion of sanctions law.

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Why Is the Dollar Crushing Global Currencies if Inflation Is so Bad?

The continued dominance of USD in global markets may come as a surprise to those who learned economics from crypto.

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An Urbit Airdrop Highlights Promises and Problems of Permissionless Development

The offbeat and controversial computing platform goes through growing pains as it seeks wider adoption through crypto.

Urbit Foundation's Josh Lehman gives a farewell address at Urbit's Assembly conference in Miami, FL in September 2022. (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

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The DeFi Financial Crime Arms Race

By taking a fresh approach to stamping out financial crime we can build a safer future for DeFi.

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Does the US Government Have a Monopoly on Trust?

How crypto could become the next great system of mutual trust in financial services.

The White House in Washington D.C. (Tabrez Syed/Unsplash)

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Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It

Software can have bugs, but it doesn’t have cooties.

An Urbit "galaxy" can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)