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Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It's a Safer Asset Than Most

Bitcoin is often lumped in risky assets like growth stocks, high yield debt, high beta ETFs, venture capital, and emerging markets. In fact, it has many hallmarks of a safe haven in a crisis.

By Jill Carlson

Mar 5, 2020 at 3:43 a.m. UTC

Mar 5, 2020

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Business

Opinion

Don't Obsess Over Crypto End Users, We Still Need Developers to Build the Back End

It’s not all about the needs of end users. Let's focus on the wants of the developers and dreamers who build crypto infrastructure, says CoinDesk columnist Jill Carlson.

By Jill Carlson

Feb 19, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. UTC

Feb 19, 2020

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Policy

Cash

Ahead of Davos, What Can Cash Teach Us About Crypto?

"I have long held that, were cash invented today, it would be dismissed by policymakers, bankers and law enforcement as dystopian, absurd and dangerous."

By Jill Carlson

Jan 15, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. UTC

Jan 15, 2020

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