Classical Economics in a Quantum World
A year ago, I looked at The State of Crypto and found it far from ready for prime time. Amid the proponents attempting to create a useful decentralized cryptocurrency and blockchain that advances Satoshi’s White Paper vision, the industry remains…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
When I first looked at Bitcoin in 2016, it was immediately obvious to me that, as designed, bitcoin wouldn’t work as a transactional currency. The bitcoin flaw. No currency has ever existed in fixed supply. An extremely primitive example is…
Read more
In March 2019, Bitwise Asset Management made a presentation to the SEC to launch a Bitcoin ETF. On October 9, 2019, the SEC disapproved Bitwise’s proposal. This follows the rejection by the SEC of every previous bitcoin ETF proposal, including…
Read more
George Gilder sent me a pre-publication draft of The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. We exchanged many emails on the topic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. This is Part II of my reply to George after reviewing The Bitcoin Standard. *…
Read more
George Gilder’s new book, Life After Google, is out today. In October 2017 George sent me a draft of Saifedean Ammous’ book, The Bitcoin Standard. I was excited to read Saifedean’s draft because Bitcoin offers tremendous promise. I quickly realized that…
Read more
In Part I, I examined Wright’s monetary views expressed in The illusion of scale in segregated witness. It is a rehash of Friedman’s failed monetarism experiment of the 70s, with fixed money supply instead of constant supply. Monetarism without an…
Read more
Craig Wright, the Australian mathematician and serial academic credential achiever, is widely associated as Satoshi Nakamoto. Andrew O’Hagan wrote The Satoshi Affair, a long account of the events leading up to Wright’s public failure to prove he is Satoshi. Wright…
Read more