Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview
What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.
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Nov 3, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
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How the Tech Elite Plans to Escape an 'Apocalypse' of Its Own Making
An excerpt from legendary tech reporter Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires."
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Sep 19, 2022 at 9:25 p.m. UTC
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'Will ETH Survive?': Why Ethereum's Leaders Forked the Network in 2016
An excerpt from podcaster Laura Shin's new book, "The Cryptopians."
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Feb 26, 2022 at 11:45 a.m. UTC
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Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 27, 2022
With crypto market sentiment growing increasingly bearish and a look at 10 recommended books to learn more about the story of money and crypto, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Jan 27, 2022 at 2:23 p.m. UTC
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10 Great Novels About Money (and Crypto)
A roundup of books worth reading for Culture Week.
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Dec 17, 2021 at 5:21 p.m. UTC
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How Misinformation on ‘Book Twitter’ Killed a Literary NFT Project
“Realms of Ruin” used the Solana blockchain for a reason. That didn’t stop people from accusing it of ruining the environment.
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Nov 22, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
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Is the Dollar Doomed?
In this excerpt from “The Future of Money,” author Eswar Prasad examines the forces – the rise of bitcoin and stablecoins and foreign currency competition – threatening the dollar’s perch as the world’s reserve currency.
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Sep 23, 2021 at 6:59 p.m. UTC
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Central Banks vs. Private Currencies: ‘The Future of Money’ With Economist Eswar Prasad
Economist Eswar Prasad’s latest book is an ambitious overview of the changing nature of money.
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Sep 20, 2021 at 6:56 p.m. UTC
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Nassim Taleb, Erstwhile Bitcoin Admirer, Publishes Paper Trashing It
Bitcoin "can be neither a long or short term store of value (its expected value is no higher than 0)," writes the "Black Swan" author.
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Jun 21, 2021 at 10:17 p.m. UTC
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Every Credit Card a Tribe, Every Crypto Coin a Scaling Debate
Lana Swartz's "New Money" is a book that will force crypto users to ask: What does using ETH or BTC or XLM or ATOM say about me?
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Oct 3, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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