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Learning to talk crypto to clients is one thing – figuring out how to rationally discuss an incredibly volatile asset class undergoing a major swoon is yet another.Journalists and investors focus a lot on crypto prices because, well, they’re easy numbers to understand

Learning to talk crypto to clients is one thing – figuring out how to rationally discuss an incredibly volatile asset class undergoing a major swoon is yet another.Journalists and investors focus a lot on crypto prices because, well, they’re easy numbers to understand

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) member Caroline D. Pham told CoinDesk TV Wednesday her agency should have had “a seat at the table” before the Securities and Exchange Commission brought insider trading allegations against a former manager at crypto exchang

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) member Caroline D. Pham told CoinDesk TV Wednesday her agency should have had “a seat at the table” before the Securities and Exchange Commission brought insider trading allegations against a former manager at crypto exchang

Crypto and sports depend on teams.A sports franchise and a blockchain startup are both led by a small pack of operators – whether it’s a revered National Football League coach and a seasoned quarterback, or a visionary founder alongside a savant developer – who

The crypto industry’s expansion over the last few years has been nothing short of meteoric.

Over the past few days, I’ve been revisiting the story of the massive 2016-2018 crypto scam BitConnect for an upcoming project. One of my surprising takeaways is that, though BitConnect was a shady global network organized by anonymous masterminds and without any formal leg

Upon first glance, the crypto world and organized sports have little in common. One domain consists of elite athletes who earn a living from their physical prowess, while the other consists of techies who – to put it mildly – don’t. But a closer look reveals tha

In 2013, the Doge meme went viral online. Based on the internal dialogue of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, the name of the meme came from a slang pronunciation of the word "dog." Discover: 10 Reasons You...

Smaller companies are choosing to raise funds privately through venture capital firms (VCs) and accredited investors, making these early stage and potentially highly profitable opportunities less accessible to everyday investors. 

Companies issuing stablecoins would have to deal with the Federal Reserve as the chief oversight agency, according to the current version of a bill being developed in the U.S. House of Representatives, say people familiar with the talks.While the industry is desperate for rules a

Last week, a trio of announcements from Scroll, Matter Labs and Polygon all had something in common: Each company implied that it would be the “first” to bring a zkEVM to market.Congrats to @Scroll_ZKP, @0xPolygon, and @zksync for each announcing the first zkEVM!

Play-to-earn games reward participants with digital cash or non-fungible tokens. In recent years, these blockchain-backed games -- also known as P2E -- have gone mainstream, becoming a core component...

I’ve long been a critic of broadcast and cable networks for permitting “sin” products to be advertised during the hours when impressionable youngsters are watching a sporting event.Ever since I can remember, touchdowns, home runs and other achievements in sports

“The Fed keeps printing trillions of dollars,” said the bitcoin advocate. “The best defense against inflation, I believe, is bitcoin, and they will keep printing money.”The man spoke fluent crypto. He sounded like a speaker at a Bitcoin conference. And in

There are two stories I want to talk about that are related, but not directly. The first: it seems possible that the U.S. economy is in or will soon enter a recession – but officials who make that call are hesitant to say so. Second, a popular Ethereum-based staking protoco

Suppose bitcoin’s (BTC) price doubles over the coming months. Would the hundreds of thousands of customers whose cryptocurrency assets are frozen within stricken lending platform Celsius Network come out ahead, or just break even?This is uncharted territory for a U.S. bankr

Every aspect of modern life is going fully digital. This is causing our expectations about the ways we interact with the “old economy” to shift dramatically. Sports, however, has been extremely slow to adapt when compared with other industries. Momentum is now buildin

Many investors have come to accept that cryptocurrencies have a place in many portfolios. However, some don't understand the functions of cryptocurrencies beyond their use as a digital asset and digital currency.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) set up a challenge on whether some tokens were securities, and Coinbase went ahead and slapped the agency with a glove.Also, a quick personal note: I’ll be at the Asian American Journalists Association annual conference in Los An