Illogical stock movements demonstrate the need for new ways to allocate capital. Yes, it’s time to talk about token offerings once more.
Money Reimagined: The Ongoing Crisis Is Stirring a Crypto Awakening in Developing Nations
Peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions are up in the developing world. This has everything to do with “QE Infinity” and could be an opening for stablecoins.
Money Reimagined: What CoinDesk’s Style Debate Says About Crypto as Public Tech
Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: with China rushing in, Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money.
Money Reimagined: Designer Money for a Machine-Run Post-COVID World
The pandemic is likely to accelerate a shift to automation, putting people out of work and raising the need for new types of money.
Money Reimagined: No, Secretary Summers, Money Privacy Is a Vital Freedom
Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial citizens are at stake.
Money Reimagined: Picasso Up, Main Street Down
The Fed is handing Wall Street an asset inflation payoff while Main Street stares down the barrel of deflation. But bitcoin may benefit.
Money Reimagined: COVID-19’s Lessons in Innovation
Though its impacts are deadly, the coronavirus is a product of an advanced innovation ecosystem. We can learn from its ability to mutate and adapt.
Money Reimagined: A World Where Privacy and Saving Lives Can Coexist
We don’t need to trade our privacy for a better response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need to embrace the full power of cryptography.
Money Reimagined: Demand for USD Stablecoins Foreshadows Financial Disruption
The pandemic has increased demand for USD-backed stablecoins, raising the prospect of “crypto-dollarization.” The implications are enormous.
Money Reimagined: As Tech, Politics and COVID-19 Collide, a Global Reset Looms
How technology, geopolitics and the coronavirus crisis are transforming how we share and store value.
Data Sets You Free: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 3
Coronavirus underscores the value of mass trustworthy data to aid community decisions on our economic and social wellbeing, says CoinDesk’s Michael Casey.
Extreme Social Distancing: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 1
How did we get in this mess? How do we get out of it? What will the post-coronavirus world look like? First in an occasional series.
Extreme Social Distancing: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 1
How did we get in this mess? How do we get out of it? What will the post-coronavirus world look like? First in an occasional series.
Why Aren’t the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?
Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.
Why Aren’t the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?
Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.
When Money Becomes Programmable – Part 1
We may be moving us toward a model of programmable money that incorporates an automated internal governance of common resources and encourages collaboration among communities.
Davos Needs to Wake Up to the Ills of Centralization
The lens of decentralization reveals a number of elephants in the room that world leaders at the WEF are missing.
A Decade of Quantitative Easing Has Paved the Way for the Age of Digital Currency
Ten years of central bank quantitative easing have fostered big distortions in the global financial system, setting it up for a major architectural shift.