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August 08, 2023PayPal's Stablecoin is the (Second) Biggest Crypto News Story of the Year
In today's episode, NLW dives deep on PayPal's Announcement, which he argues forms a matched pair with BlackRock's spot BTC ETF application as the key events in the most important trend of this bear market.
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15 min
August 07, 2023Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
Coinbase argues that crypto is a "major question" that requires Congress to explicitly authorize the SEC to oversee.
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14 min
August 06, 2023How Stablecoins Could Save the Dollar's Global Reserve Role
On this Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads:
Pass the Stablecoin Bill Now - Austin Campbell
Stablecoins: A Potential Counter to Dedollarization - Yiannis Giokas
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11 min
August 05, 2023Worldcoin Iris Scanning Shut Down in Kenya
On this edition of the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at Worldcoin's issues in Kenya; the NYT's weird defense of SBF's leaking of Caroline Ellison's journal; guilty pleas from the Bitfinex hacker and more.
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15 min
August 04, 2023A Primer on LK-99
LK-99 has captured the world's attention for its promise of room-temperature superconductivity. But what does that even mean? NLW provides an overview and primer.
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18 min
August 03, 2023Binance: Too Big to Jail
Semafor is reporting that the DoJ is exploring options other than a full criminal complaint against CZ and Binance for fear that it would cause a bank run that could harm consumers. Is Binance now too big to [j]ail?
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13 min
August 02, 2023Is the US Credit Rating Downgrade a Nothingburger?
NLW explores a range of reactions to Fitch's decision to downgrade US sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ from the political responses to the market response to the shoulder shrug of people who don't think it's really possible to compare the US to anyone else.
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16 min
August 01, 2023Tether Holds More US Government Debt Than Australia
A look at the latest Tether reserve attestation, plus an update on the Curve hack and a new court ruling that rejects the Torres Doctrine from the Ripple vs. SEC case.
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14 min
July 31, 2023Is DeFi Too Dangerous?
NLW explores the $47m hack that occurred over the weekend, and contextualizes it in the larger trends and patterns of DeFi exploits.
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17 min
July 30, 2023The Boring-ification of the Crypto Narrative
A reading of: A Crypto Truce Emerges Between Fraud and Revolution - Aaron Brown
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10 min

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