It gives me no pleasure to report that less than six months into this Congressional term, the 2024 election season has become fully underway. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) officially declared his candidacy last week, though he appears to have been laying the groundwork (campa
Whether the crypto industry wants the spotlight or not, digital assets are among the earliest talking points in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with the most prominent of the new candidates even invoking bitcoins in his campaign opener as evidence of President Joe Biden&rsqu
One of the perverse truisms of crypto is that for a certain kind of founder, the clearest path to success is to never actually build anything. Token presales incentivize infinite delay because you can cash in so effectively on grandiose promises – and the reality of what yo
In recent years, banking platforms have begun to integrate digital assets into their portfolios, as a way to diversify investment profiles while simultaneously addressing numerous lending requests that need to be fulfilled.
A new bill introduced in the House would clarify that a digital asset that is sold as part of an "investment contract" does not necessarily become a security. If passed, the Securities Clarity Act would help settle one of the most debated legal questions in the crypto space and m
Halfway through 2023, the crypto industry is slowly recovering from the bruises and losses it suffered last year and regaining ground. A very long crypto winter, collapses, millions of dollars lost...
So, there was a deal resolving the U.S. debt ceiling battle in Washington, D.C. Now what? First, let’s look at where we are.The words “crypto” and “cryptocurrencies” don’t appear at all in the initial version of the deal. I wrestle with whether
Another country is waffling on blockchain. Russia, the belligerent nation led by an egomaniac, has allegedly ditched plans to build a national cryptocurrency exchange, according to local reports surfaced to Crypto Twitter by Wu Blockchain’s Colin Wu. Instead, the country wi
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Crypto in the U.S. is more polarized and politicized than ever.Ironically, that’s a sign that the issues around this technology have become less of a fringe concern for ordinary Americans. With Florida governor Ron DeSantis signaling his fidelity to Bitcoin in his president
Yesterday, the company behind the Sam Altman-fronted Worldcoin project announced it had raised $115 million dollars in venture capital. The raise looks like an atavistic last gasp for the kind of prestige-driven, slot-machine structured Silicon Valley fundraising fostered by a d
Pudgy Penguins, a non-fungible token (NFT) project made up of cute chubby birds, has experienced waves of success and mishap since its debut in July 2021, including a rapid downturn in price and sentiment as doubts surrounding the founders emerged later that year.The community of
Durante Consensus 2023 del mes pasado, CoinDesk organizó dos roundtables de administradores de inversiones a las que solamente se podía acceder con invitación: una diseñada específicamente para inversores institucionales (35 pensiones, oficinas
Interoperability in crypto payments refers to the ability of different cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks to communicate, exchange value, and interact seamlessly.
Do we truly have 'a clear regulatory framework' (as Gensler put it) for digital assets in the U.S.? And should all digital tokens fall under SEC jurisdiction?
This month marks one year since the Terra-Luna fallout and six months since the implosion of FTX. These spectacular events, which marked the beginning and culmination of several other collapses respectively, severely shook confidence in cryptocurrencies and arguably triggered the
It’s fair to say sentiment toward crypto among the general public has plummeted in the past year. This may have a secondary effect of pushing financial advisors to shy away from the category, and digital assets in general, at least until there is more certainty in the marke
This week CoinDesk published one of the most thought-provoking and balanced articles on bitcoin mining I’ve ever read. The report is focused around the Greenidge bitcoin mining company in upstate New York, which was at the center of a protracted media cycle last year after
