Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
Michael Kendall
June 29, 2022
The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) released a lengthy update on CBDC progress. It is a safe, reassuring report to justify CBDC as a benign evolution of the monetary system. From the report we glean that all the wonders of…
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Michael Kendall
May 18, 2022
Every once in a while I look under the hood to see the inner workings of a crypto. There are thousands of cryptos and new ones are constantly being innovated under less than reliable protocols. They all promise a new…
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Michael Kendall
March 13, 2022
The Biden administration issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets on March 9, 2022. What are the implications? There is a story arc to the evolution of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. The cliff notes version of…
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Michael Kendall
May 30, 2021
No, Hedera and the Hbars is not a band, though it would make a great band name. Every once in a while I find it useful to read one of the thousands of White Papers and see what is happening…
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Michael Kendall
January 4, 2021
Craig Wright is probably scratching his head, wondering why bitcoin (BTC) has soared past $30,000 while his Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) languishes around its average price for the past year. BTC has left BSV behind despite BSV’s leaps in blockchain…
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Michael Kendall
September 2, 2020
George Gilder asked for my comment on the new expandable cryptocurrency AMPL. My reply. George, I haven’t heard of AMPL or YAM, but I think the author Koning has characterized them correctly. They are just another in the long…
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Michael Kendall
March 12, 2020
The next halving of bitcoin’s mining reward will occur around the week of May 18, 2020. The mining reward halves every four years. A designed algorithm creates the supply of bitcoin on a schedule coded into the Bitcoin protocol. After…
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Michael Kendall
March 5, 2020
Calvin Ayre runs the cryptocurrency news site CoinGeek and is a long-time backer of Craig Wright and Bitcoin SV. CoinGeek presented a conference in London on February 20-21 that promoted advances from Bitcoin SV’s recently released Genesis protocol upgrade that…
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Michael Kendall
February 23, 2020
More on the problem and solution for cryptocurrency. Delineating the Crypto Space follows The Protocol Layer, Cryptocurrency Market Valuation II, and Free Banking and Cryptocurrency. The Big Picture The cryptocurrency blockchain space appears to be a chaotic morass of…
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Michael Kendall
February 15, 2020
Free Banking and Cryptocurrency is next in my series of looking at the problem and solution for cryptocurrency. Previously in the series is The Protocol Layer and Cryptocurrency and Market Valuation II. The U.S. Free Banking Era It is not…
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