Hedera and the Hbars
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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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin through $30,000
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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Cryptos by the Thousands
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 Bitcoin Halving
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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Craig Wright Meets George Gilder
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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Delineating the Crypto Space
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
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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Cryptocurrency Market Valuation II
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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The Protocol Layer
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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The State of Crypto
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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