Showing posts with label zero-sum games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zero-sum games. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

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What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Memecoins are the point

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Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A big chunk of crypto is gambling. Why not regulate it that way?

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[This article was published last week in CoinDesk .] The Pluses and Minuses of Regulating Crypto as Gambling In the wake of FTX's shoc...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Play Bitcoin: Remember, It's Just a Game

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[[My first article with Breakermag was published in September 2018. Alas, Breakermag closed its doors in 2019. The website remained up for ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

From Circle-of-Gold to Mega$Nets to Bitcoin

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We tend to dismiss chain letters as mere scams or frauds. In this post I want to get readers thinking about chain letters as a type of finan...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Ponzis and bitcoin as a response to a bad economy: the case of Nigeria

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Usually when I think about gambling and speculative excess, I've always associated it with giddy prosperity. When an economy is doing we...
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