Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
  
 
    
      
        
        
          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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          Michael Kendall
          February 12, 2020
          
        
        
          
I continue to look into the problem and solution for cryptocurrency.  Previously, I discussed The Protocol Layer. The Price and Market Cap of Currency What are the two metrics people look at If they want to judge the efficacy of…
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