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Elon, You Don’t Need Crypto to Do Twitter Payments
If Musk wants to build an instant cross-border network, he'll find central bank real-time systems have moved on quite a bit since his days at PayPal, says J.P. Koning.
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USDC Boasted Transparency but It Didn't Help When Silicon Valley Bank Got Into Trouble
The stablecoin offers greater transparency than competitors like USDT but that proved of little value as it was depegged during the recent banking crisis, says J.P. Koning.
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle (CoinDesk)
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The Pluses and Minuses of Regulating Crypto as Gambling
Let's face it, a lot of crypto trading is more like gambling than investing. So why not regulate the industry that way? JP Koning says there are benefits and demerits to the i...
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How Tether Can Be a More Stable Stablecoin
Tether, the world's biggest stablecoin, has a problem. When the going gets tough, Tether users want out of Tether. What can the company do to change things?
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Japan Was the Safest Place to Be an FTX Customer
As regulators look to regulate exchanges in light of the FTX's collapse, they would do well to look to Japan, which has some of the most mature rules in the world.
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Let's Stop Regulating Crypto Exchanges Like Western Union
It's time for U.S. crypto exchanges to face the same rules as non-crypto marketplaces and brokers, says our columnist.
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Reversibility on Ethereum: The Benefits and Pitfalls
The equivalent of “chargebacks” on Ethereum would be controversial but would ultimately help the blockchain to become more useful.
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How to Stop Illegal Activity on Tornado Cash (Without Using Sanctions)
Rather than sanctioning code, U.S. authorities should have targeted the human intermediaries.
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How to Stop Forsage, Meta Force and Other Smart Contract Pyramid Schemes
An SEC indictment notwithstanding, it's not easy to taking down online pyramid schemes, says our columnist. Here are some ideas.
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New York Regulators Have Planted a Seed for Stablecoin Transparency
New guidance from the New York Department of Financial Services should shake up how stablecoin issuers do attestation and other reporting, says our columnist.
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