May 2020

The third part of The Breakdown’s Money Reimagined series looks at the role of bitcoin and USD stablecoins in the new global monetary order.

Tendermint and Cosmos developer (and part-time pirate) Sunny Aggarwal is the latest intriguing soul to take the CoinDesk Confesssional questionnaire.

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.

Crypto.com is now shipping its crypto-to-fiat card, the MCO Visa, across the European Union.

BTC hovers at $9K while Australia knocks out Bitcoin sales. This is CoinDesk’s Markets Daily Podcast.

Forty-six central banks would consider a broader form of distributed ledger technology for a CBDC but aren’t crazy about putting it on a blockchain.

CoinMarketCap’s new exchange ranking gives its new owner Binance a perfect score. The site’s CEO said the decision was in part based on the Twitter “presence and feed” of the exchange’s CEO.

From bitcoin mining workshops to VR meetings about VR meetings, everything you need to know for the last day of Consensus: Distributed.

The filing details a way for fiat currencies, like the U.S. dollar, to be turned into a central bank digital currency.

Bakkt’s eagerly awaited debut offers new ways for institutions to get exposure to bitcoin. And it’s just getting started.