“The Fed Meetings Are a Dead Spectator Sport” Best of The Breakdown September 2020
A recap of September, which NLW calls a transitional month between the post-lockdown excitement of the summer and the growing macro insecurity around second wave fears and election volatility. Featu...
3 Loka 202016min
“Good Reason to Worry” What the BitMEX Indictment Means for DeFi and Bitcoin
Today on the Brief: Market reaction to Pres.Trump contracting COVID-19 Subpar September jobs report Decentralized exchanges have third straight 100%+ growth month Our main discussion feature...
3 Loka 202041min
'Stocks Only Go Up' and Other Ignorable Investment Advice
When popular finance writer Morgan Housel asked followers on Twitter to share the commonly held investing beliefs they most disagreed with, the internet responded with vigor. A thousand or so replie...
2 Loka 202017min
DeFi Summer; Bitcoin Fall
Today on the Brief: Coinbase offers severance to employees who want to leave over new politics policy Long-term job cuts hamper any idea of V-shaped recovery Last chance for a stimulus package bef...
1 Loka 202019min
Coinbase’s New Policy: Anti-Woke or Just A Joke?
Monday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published the innocuously titled “Coinbase Is a Mission-Driven Company.” While the post talked a lot about Coinbase’s core mission, its real goal seemed to be to...
30 Syys 202020min
So Now They’re Hacking DeFi Protocols Before They’ve Even Launched?
DeFi is one of the breakout crypto categories of 2020. Indeed, yield farming and the grand game of “money legos” has been so profitable that many are following every new protocol with rapt attention. ...
30 Syys 202011min
Why Bitcoin's Longest Run Above $10,000 Matters
Today on the Brief: After four weeks down, bitcoin bounces back on suspicions that recent bearishness was overblown KuCoin exchange gets hacked for somewhere between $150 million and $280 million ...
29 Syys 202016min
Understanding the Coming Currency Cold War
This week’s Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “The Currency Cold War: Four Scenarios” by Jeff Wilsner – part of CoinDesk’s Internet 2030 series. In it, Wilsner talks to experts about four scenarios:...
27 Syys 202021min
