Crypto 2022

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Capitalism Misallocates Resources. Web 3 Tech Can Help
Money was on the road to nowhere before programability.
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MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 04:  MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor  speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Michael Saylor Calls Bitcoin the World’s Reserve Asset but Not So Good for Buying a Cup of Coffee
The billionaire founder of the business software company MicroStrategy said in a CoinDesk TV interview that bitcoin is the best inflation hedge.
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 04:  MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor  speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The Radical Pluralism of Money
Money must not always be a unit of account, store of value and medium of exchange.
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Aligning Social and Financial Capital to Create Better Money
Would money be better if it was aligned with our reputations?
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Tim Draper was an early backer of the internet and bitcoin. (CoinDesk TV)
Tim Draper on Bitcoin and the Collapse of Fiat
The billionaire scion joined CoinDesk TV to discuss the future of money.
Tim Draper was an early backer of the internet and bitcoin. (CoinDesk TV)

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Money for Everything: A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized
In a fully tokenized future, everything is money. Is that a good thing?
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Stablecoins’ Tenuous Relationships With Banks
For as much as stablecoins market themselves as a nonbank solution, they still need banks, writes Yale’s Steven Kelly for the Future of Money Week.
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7 Wild Scenarios for the Future of Money
Here the focus is more on fun than functional, more possible than probable.
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The Downside of Programmable Money
Software bugs aren’t the half of it, says Steven Kelly of Yale in a Q&A with CoinDesk. “You can’t preprogram the exigencies of a crisis.”
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