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DeFi: What it Is and Isn’t (Part 1)
I interviewed industry professionals at top law firms, investment funds, exchanges, and various decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, in…
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Reinventing the Financial System - by Marc Rubinstein\nReinventing the Financial System
Plus: Greensill, Dave, Revenue Financing
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My Adventures in CryptoLand - by Marc Rubinstein\nMy Adventures in CryptoLand
Plus: dLocal, Tencent, Lemonade
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Why India Should Buy Bitcoin - balajis.com\nWhy India Should Buy Bitcoin
Prime Minister Modi should launch a digital rupee – and back it with digital gold.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Cryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible– to anyone, no matter where they are in the world.
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DeFi explained: The guide to decentralized finance
What is DeFi and how does it work? Forkast.News explains everything you need to know about one of the hottest, most lucrative and controversial crypto trends.
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Bitcoin is One for All - Unchained Capital
At the Democratic National Convention (August 2020), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign as, “a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few at the expense of long-term stability for the many.
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A beginner's guide to DeFi
An introduction to decentralized finance. Covers stablecoins, composability, decentralized lending, dexes, and identity.
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | Binance Academy
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial service ecosystem built on public blockchains that aims to disrupt the traditional world of finance.\n
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Decentralized Finance Explained
An explanation of the emerging digital finance stack, without the jargon.
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Bitcoin bites the bullet
Some of its most puzzling tradeoffs explained
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<em>Thanks to Brendan Forster of Dharma, Robert Leshner of Compound, Nik Kunkel of MakerDAO, Antonio Juliano of dYdX, Varun Deshpande of Nuo, and Emilio Frangella of AAVE for input on their respective sections.</em>
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A technical introduction to Bitcoin for non-technical people
This post is something I’ve wanted to exist for a long time, but have never really found to my liking: an introductory but real explanation of how Bitcoin actually works, meant for a smart but non-…
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The 7 Major Flaws of the Global Financial System
Since the invention of banking, the global financial system has increasingly become more centralized. Here are the big flaws it has, as a result.
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Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract - Uncommon Core by Su Zhu and Hasu
The bitcoin protocol automates the contract agreed upon on the social layer, while the social layer determines the rules of bitcoin, based on the consensus of its users.
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Why Is Bitcoin Valuable? (The Surprisingly Simple Reasons Behind Bitcoin's Value)
On almost every dimension, Bitcoin is worse than it’s centralized counterparts like Paypal or Chase. This is true not just of bitcoin but almost all decentralized cryptocurrency protocols. They are slower, more expensive, harder to scale, and offer worse user experiences. So why is bitcoin valuable?
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How to Get Into Cryptocurrency: The Essential Resources You Must Have
Trying to figure out how to get into cryptocurrency? Need a cryptocurrency 101 class? Here's a list of the best cryptocurrency resources you MUST have.
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Why Bitcoin Matters
Bitcoin is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science, Marc Andreessen writes in Another View.