Unable to dynamically match supply with demand
This post will look at an amalgam of ideas touched on by Eli Dourado in a post several days ago […]
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2015
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A pre-post-mortem on BitPay
Yesterday at the MoneyConf in Belfast, BitPay’s CEO Stephen Pair announced that they were pivoting away from payments and towards
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Needing a token to operate a distributed ledger is a red herring
Over the last few weeks a number of posts and interviews on social media have promoted the position that “you
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The final version of the BitLicense was released
A reporter from CoinDesk reached out yesterday to ask if there were any questions I had in relation to the
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Housing all financial controls under one roof, managed by one person
A new story up on Fusion — Former Mt. Gox CEO: Current Bitcoin exchanges are a ‘disaster waiting to happen’
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A few results from the first intentional stress test on a communal blockchain
I have covered the issue of increasing the Bitcoin block size a few times in the past: What is the
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What impact have various investment pools had on Bitcoinland?
According to public announcements, approximately $790 million has been raised by Bitcoin-related companies over the past three years (and really
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Distributed ledgers, blockchains and Bitcoin in the news
Below are several stories and articles from the past few weeks that either cited one of my papers or where
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Book review: Digital Gold
Two days ago I had a chance to read through a new book called Digital Gold written by Nathaniel Popper,
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Book review: The Age of Cryptocurrency
On my trip to Singapore two weeks ago I read through a new book The Age of Cryptocurrency, written by
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What’s happening in the Singapore fintech arena?
About a week ago I attended two back-to-back events: the Sim Kee Boon Institute’s conference and the DBS blockchain hackathon.
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Cryptocurrency KYSF: Know Your Source of Funds
Last week a reporter from CoinDesk asked me a few questions related to the chart (below) discussed in the flow
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The Future of Fintech: Crystal balls and tasseography
Yesterday I gave a new presentation at a roundtable talk at the Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University.
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What has been the reaction to permissioned distributed ledgers?
About 3 weeks ago I published the “Consensus as a service” report. What has the fallout been over it? A
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The flow of funds on the Bitcoin network in 2015
Over the past several months, there has been a number of useful, simplified flow charts that show the general demand
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A gift card economy: breaking down BitPay’s numbers
Two days ago BitPay, the largest payment processor in the cryptocurrency space, published a new infographic filled with a number
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Consensus-as-a-service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned, distributed ledger systems
I have spent the past month compiling research that took place between August and the present day. This was much
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Interview with deBitcoin
Earlier today I was interviewed by Paul Buitink and Jop Hartog, co-hosts of a weekly show at deBitcoin, based in
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Panel from Blockchain University Demo Day
A couple weeks ago I moderated a panel at Blockchain University, wrapping up the inaugural cohort. Panelists included Atif Nazir
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Distributed Oversight: Custodians and Intermediaries
[Note: This past weekend I took part of a working group at Stanford University as part of the “Blockchain Global
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Understanding value transfers to and from China
A couple days ago, on Monday, I was on a panel hosted at Stanford University as part of the “Blockchain
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Questions for knowledge markets
I am often asked to provide content to community-driven question-and-answer sites like Quora, Stack Exchange and now Zapchain. Here are
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What is the “real” price of bitcoin?
Even before Bitcoin was part of the zeitgeist for the digerati, people have been guessing what the price of a bitcoin
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Eric Tymoigne: “The fair price of bitcoins as measured by the discounted value of future cash flows is zero.”
Earlier today The Wall Street Journal posted two responses to the question: “Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future?”
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A brief history of Bitcoin “wallet” growth
There has been a lot of investment and press coverage of the overall Bitcoin ecosystem. So what kind of growth