Classical Economics in a Quantum World
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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Why the U.S. could return to a gold standard at $1300/oz without risk of inflation or deflation There are two prices of gold. There is the market spot price of gold (POG) and an optimum POG which represents the price…
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