When most people hear “crypto,” the first thing they think of is “currencies.” Cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. And they’ve given rise to an entire ecosystem of financial speculation, get rich quick schemes, and in some cases outright fraud.
But there’s another side of crypto that gets less attention: the segment of t ... Show More
Apr 17
Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth. In 2021, ProPublica published an investigation built on leaked tax documents that reveal what some of the richest Americans r ... Show More
1h 5m
Apr 10
Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War
When President Trump didn’t annihilate “a whole civilization” on Tuesday, as he had threatened to do, much of the world exhaled. But the damage of his statements — a U.S. president, the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military, threatening to commit war crimes — c ... Show More
1h 7m
Feb 2022
Taxes Versus Privacy in Crypto: Old Rules, Modern Technology
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp.During CoinDesk’s Tax Week, “Money Reimagined” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey dive into the fears and debates around crypto during tax season. Last year’s infrastructure bill called out crypto taxing directly, and in the ... Show More
48m 1s
Mar 2020
LEIGH: Udi Wetheimer on Real Bitcoin Use and Cyperpunk Myths
The cypherpunk movement has expanded far beyond the 2,000 people who subscribed to mailing lists in the 1990s. In 2018, Entrepreneur reported there are more than 8,000 posts on Bitcointalk every day, while Coinbase garnered millions of user accounts. Such experimental technology ... Show More
59m 40s
Feb 2022
BREAKDOWN: What Grassroots Communities in Emerging Markets Can Teach Us About Bitcoin, Feat. Anita Posch
The founder of Bitcoin for Fairness shares her perspective.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US.
Today NLW is joined by Anita Posch. Anita is the founder of Bitcoin for Fairness and the author of “(L)earn Bitcoin.” She is about to depart on a trip to southern ... Show More
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478500436873293828" target="_blank">The Twitter thread</a> that brought Cryptoland to the team’s attention.</p><p>Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like <a href="htt ... Show More