CoinDesk's New Opinion Section: The Future of the Financial System Is Up for Debate

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Announcing CoinDesk's new opinion section, a place for discussions on the future of money and all the interesting questions that surround crypto and blockchain as ideas.

Wherever you stand on bitcoin as an actual payment system, or whether you think additive X-for-blockchain business ideas went too far, you have to admit they've spurred debate in interesting ways.

Geopolitically-important projects like central bank digital currencies, Libra, JPM Coin and many others were spawned from bitcoin.

These are all issues for discussion in February 2020 because of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings in 2008.We plan to have fun conjecturing all this with the help of daily columnists, a diverse range of contributors, long-form interviews, books coverage and more.

We want to bring you the best writers and writing every day, covering "Generation crypto," the shift to a new way of thinking.

First up at the plate this morning, we have SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce - aka Crypto Mom - writing about her Safe Harbor proposal, a radical reframing of the debate about whether tokens should be treated as securities.

"I continue to urge people - this time in the words of Huey Lewis and the News - 'If this is it, please let me know ... if this is it, I want to know,'" she writes of the proposal.

Finally, our roving correspondent Jeff Wilser spends quality time with bitcoin OG Erik Voorhees in Colorado.

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