Tag Archive: George Gilder
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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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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My Run with George Gilder
The guests mingled. The dinner, toasts, acknowledgments, and speeches had ended. Spirits were high and none more so than George Gilder. This was his night. It was August 24, 2016, and George had wrapped up his Telecosm event at The…
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George Gilder: Life After Google – Book Review
In his prophetic 1990 book, Life After Television, George Gilder predicted: The computer of the future would be as portable as your watch and as personal as your wallet. It would recognize speech and navigate streets, collect your mail and your…
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Notes on The Bitcoin Standard II
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. *…
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Notes on The Bitcoin Standard
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…
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The Flawed Monetary Theory of Craig Wright
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…
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Fed Normalization II
The economic term normalization has entered the financial lexicon and will soon dominate markets. As with everything the Fed has done since Nixon ended dollar stability by severing its link to gold in 1971, the advent of normalization is just…
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