Who You Really Are: A Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus
The internet phenomenon and historian explains why true anonymity is hard within internet culture.
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Jun 11, 2022 at 11:37 p.m. UTC
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Volatility Ruled Crypto Markets in 2021, From $69K Bitcoin to Elon Musk’s ‘Dogecoin to the Moooonn’
NFTs exploded, Coinbase stock went public, El Salvador bought the dip and China cracked down on bitcoin miners, while Solana’s SOL tokens and Polygon’s MATIC shot up by multiples of 90 or more. Here’s how crypto traders played it.
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Dec 31, 2021 at 1:15 p.m. UTC
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Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth
The 50th edition of the “Money Reimagined” podcast features one of crypto’s most original thinkers.
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Oct 22, 2021 at 6:21 p.m. UTC
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Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 5, 2021
With bitcoin breaking above $50K plus a brief look at the “money stack” and how crypto could change it, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Oct 5, 2021 at 2:15 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin’s Censorship-Resistance Was a Step Change in History
Blockchain technology put rocket fuel into the internet's ability to defy censorship, turning what was once a conversation about the appropriate limits of speech into a matter of engineering.
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Jul 22, 2021 at 4:01 p.m. UTC
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South China Morning Post to Mint Historical Records as NFTs
The SCMP introduced its ARTIFACT standard for recording historical accounts and assets on the blockchain as NFTs.
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Jul 19, 2021 at 11:31 a.m. UTC
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Nobody Saw Inflation Coming in the 1960s, but It Could Be Back: Economist
Very few of today's bond portfolio managers and traders can remember the last inflation shock, but that does not make a new shock less
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Mar 16, 2021 at 12:07 a.m. UTC
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Crypto Is the Libertarian Cheat Code in the Final Battle Over State Coercion
A normie Mario fights Bowser to save Princess Peach; a libertarian Mario builds her an escape hatch.
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Feb 4, 2021 at 4:05 p.m. UTC
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Cypherpunk, Crypto Anarchy and How Bitcoin Lost the Narrative
The crypto industry tends to give "cypherpunk" vibes a great deal of lip service without much attention to their real values.
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Nov 24, 2020 at 12:18 p.m. UTC
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A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.
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Nov 3, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. UTC
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