BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto's 'Rogue State' Narrative is a Risk to the Industry
Crypto tokens weren’t the only thing that saw a major pump yesterday. The total value locked in DeFi ascended to new heights. While part of this can be explained simply by the rise in ETH price, it al...
15 Jan 202016min
BREAKDOWN: Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge | January 14th, 2020
Bitcoin is up more than 8% in the last 24 hours. BSV, meanwhile, is up nearly a whopping 100%. The question is, of course, why? Is it some larger macro context? A pump-and-dump? Or just the crypto mar...
14 Jan 202018min
Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto's Killer App | January 13th 2020
Starting today, accredited investors will be able to part of $13.5m in tokenized bonds connected to the contract of Brooklyn Nets Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie. The first-of-its-kind offering took mon...
13 Jan 202020min
'The Internet Was Illegal' and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show enlisted CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox for a conversation o...
12 Jan 202055min
BREAKDOWN: The Global Game of Coins Heats Up | January 10th, 2020
China’s digital currency project continues to move ahead aggressively, with a new paper from the People’s Bank of China suggesting that a core design is complete. Whatever stage of development the cur...
10 Jan 202016min
NARRATIVE WATCH: Will DAOs Break Out In 2020? | January 9th, 2020
The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later some other aspects of the web3 movement. In 2019, however, DAOs came roaring back and start 2020 with ...
9 Jan 202020min
BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 2019
The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw the price of BTC both surge and retrace in parallel with crude and gold. To hel...
8 Jan 202016min
BREAKDOWN: Hamstringing an Industry With Compliance Costs | January 7th, 2020
In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries as compared to 2018, which CEO Jesse Powell later revealed cost the exchange more than $1m. Between t...
7 Jan 202017min
