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    Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols

    Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols

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    Would the real USDP please stand up?Last month, Paxos, the issuer of the seventh-largest stablecoin in the $2 trillion global cryptocurrency market, renamed the token, previously called the Paxos standard, to the Paxos dollar. As part of the rebranding, the crypto...
    El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is About Self-Determination

    El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is About Self-Determination

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    Money talks, often in metaphors. Today, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, allowing residents to pay all public and private debts in the cryptocurrency. It’s a policy without precedent in the world, and one that symbolizes the...
    El Salvador’s Bold Bet on Bitcoin Could Inspire the World

    El Salvador’s Bold Bet on Bitcoin Could Inspire the World

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    The tiny nation of El Salvador will soon take a giant leap into the future of finance, as it will become the first country ever to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. Last week, President Nayib Bukele announced in a national address that the law will take effect on...
    Coinbase Has Words for the SEC. Is It Listening?

    Coinbase Has Words for the SEC. Is It Listening?

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    Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange and one of the largest publicly traded cryptocurrency firms in the world, announced late Tuesday night that it has received a warning from the Securities and Exchange Commission about its planned Lend product, which...
    Bukele’s MS-13 Double Bind

    Bukele’s MS-13 Double Bind

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    Among the reactions to El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, which became official this week, has been concern about Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s relationship with the country’s violent gangs. Those gangs, including the California-bred group MS-13,...
    Congressman Tom Emmer: ‘Crypto Is Not Partisan’

    Congressman Tom Emmer: ‘Crypto Is Not Partisan’

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    The fight that crypto exchange Coinbase took to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week highlighted that the federal government’s approach to regulation is broken.This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Insider Protocol. What can be done to improve...
    Crypto Can Do Better Than ETFs

    Crypto Can Do Better Than ETFs

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    In what is becoming a seasonal tradition, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is using any legal and technical recourse to punt yet again on approving U.S.-based crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Even with these challenges, several firms haven’t been...
    DeFi and the 3 Cs

    DeFi and the 3 Cs

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    Imagine thinking that not collecting sensitive data is inherently a bad thing.That canard seemed to be the subtext of two memorable lines in last Sunday’s front-page New York Times story about the regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency lending.In a passage explaining...
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