Saturday, February 26, 2022

What's the marketing strategy for the Fed's CBDC?

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Last month the Federal Reserve published it's long awaited report on central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Here's my quick respon...
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Friday, February 18, 2022

Bitcoin failed as a tool for funding the Ottawa protestors, and that's a good thing for Canada

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[For CoinDesk, here are my thoughts about bitcoin, the Ottawa truckers, and the Emergencies Act.] Bitcoin Is a Bad Way to Fund the Ottawa P...
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Thursday, February 10, 2022

The trucker convoy and "choking off" their funding

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Look, I don't support the so-called "Freedom Convoy." Of the two big demonstrations currently going on in Canada – the Freedo...
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Monday, February 7, 2022

Why stablecoins should not be regulated like Western Union

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Here's an interesting bit of stablecoin trivia. Half of all Paxos stablecoins are currently lying inert in MakerDAO, a decentralized fin...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Don't bank on bitcoin banking the unbanked

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Bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos thinks that bitcoin can solve the unbanked problem. If you've spent any amount of time studying...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Three potential paths for the price of bitcoin

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Are you wondering whether to buy bitcoin at $38,000? To help you with your decision, here are three visualizations of the future path for th...
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Saturday, January 29, 2022

DeFi needs more secrecy, but not too much secrecy, and the right sort of secrecy

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[Below is my contribution to CoinDesk's Privacy Week ]  The Privacy That DeFi Needs to Succeed The transparency of blockchains is often...
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Monday, January 24, 2022

Why Henry III's gold penny failed

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English gold penny minted by Henry III in 1257 A lucky metal detectorist just discovered a Henry III gold penny , one of the first English ...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

Yemen's bifurcated monetary system

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Over the last five years Yemen has stumbled into a unique monetary situation. I initially wrote about Yemen's odd currency status two ye...
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