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Is crypto just gambling?

Is crypto just gambling? That's a point I made in my recent "let it burn" blog post . (And I notice that the ECB's Fabio P…

Reversibility on Ethereum

[CoinDesk published my article on reversible Ethereum transactions last month. I'm reposting it here for anyone who didn't have a chance to …

How to stop Forsage, Meta Force and other smart contract pyramid schemes

Serial smart contract pyramid schemer Lado Okhotnikov   [This is a republication of my latest opinion piece from CoinDesk.] Last week the U.S. Secur…

The vandalization of "bitcoin accepted" signs

[Here's an article I wrote for CoinDesk's recent Payments Week series.] Why We Need Crypto Payments to Work Crypto has always held out the p…

The tragedy of Dogecoin

Dogecoin is currently using as much electricity as the entire state of Vermont, home to 620,000 people, tens of thousands of businesses, hundreds o…

Thoughts on the relationship between corruption and crypto adoption

[This is a re-post of an article I wrote for CoinDesk last week. The IMF recently found that corrupt countries tend to have high crypto adoption. In …

Why does crypto work for Russian ransomware, but it wasn't useful for the Ottawa truckers?

[This is a repost of my recent article for CoinDesk exploring why bitcoin has been demonstratively useful for certain illegal activities, like ranso…

Make bitcoin cheap again for cypherpunks!

[For CoinDesk's Tax Week, I wrote about taxing proof-of-work, the mechanism used to secure Bitcoin. I'm still not 100% sure how to design th…

Bitcoin failed as a tool for funding the Ottawa protestors, and that's a good thing for Canada

[For CoinDesk, here are my thoughts about bitcoin, the Ottawa truckers, and the Emergencies Act.] Bitcoin Is a Bad Way to Fund the Ottawa Protest, a…

Don't bank on bitcoin banking the unbanked

Bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos thinks that bitcoin can solve the unbanked problem. If you've spent any amount of time studying the unba…
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