Month: August 2018

Governments & Central Banks Should Look to Gold not Crypto

“…The age of controlled money had arrived — and with it, world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of leviathan states that learned to print their way to power and riches.” –Jeffrey Tucker

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The Bitcoin Second Layer

“This makes Lightning Network an absolute game changer for the entire concept of capital markets: income without explicit counterparty default risk.” @timevalueofbtc

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Bitmain, BCH, the IPO & What it All Actually Means

“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coins Bitmain is still holding” -@CryptoHerpesCat

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Media Coverage of Bitcoin is Still a Total Disaster

“I’m going to expose the Washington Post/Wonkblog piece for the nonsensical ramble that it is… in short, it relies on mistaken assumptions to paint a misleading picture of the world.” –Nic Carter

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Responsible Disclosure in the Era of Cryptocurrencies

“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies…” – Cory Fields

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What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? – Part 2

Will hundreds of coins flourish? Will economic thought change completely? Will it be a force for good or evil? And will Bitcoin even survive? All this and more in the second half of Daniel Jeffries’s great piece on the Future of Bitcoin!

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What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? – Part 1

Will the price increase forever? Will government currencies be a thing of the past? Will there be a singular, global economy? And how do we make interesting predictions in the first place? All this and more in the first half of Daniel Jeffries’s great piece on the Future of Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin, We Don’t Expect New Highs in 2018

Price prediction is a tricky game, but there is some fundamental analysis that may tell us more about the broad trends. Tuur Demeester looks at retail interest, institutional hesitancy, and Metcalf’s law for a current perspective in: “Bitcoin: We Don’t Expect New Highs in 2018.”

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Why Money Has Value & Spending Bitcoin is Senseless

Mises’ and Menger’s theories of money provide deep insight, but invariably never attempted to rank the functions of money during its period of establishment. To fill the gap, Fernando Ulrich explains why he believes a Store of Value must arise before a money becomes a Medium of Exchange.

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ASIC Resistance is Nothing but a Blockchain Buzzword

Is ASIC resistance really the panacea that some claim it is? Will it solve the never ending challenges of a decentralized network? Or is it just a buzzword used to sell Bitcoin alternatives? Find out in @StopAndDecrypt‘s thorough piece on ASIC resistance.

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