40 cointroversies to look into over the summer
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How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero?
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed
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Blockchain 2040: the year we burn the last mound of coal
Yesterday I was part of a panel at UC Berkeley where we given a prompt: what will the world look
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Six bedtime stories from 2017
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How the CME (un)intentionally weighed in on chain splits
For background, this post assumes you have read some (or ideally all) of the previous posts: Comments on the COIN
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Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Probably Won’t Tell You
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Citations, interviews, and events for the final third of 2016
I ended up traveling a lot more than I expected last year, including 9 times just to East Asia. The
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Citations, presentations, and panels
Below are a number of events, presentations, panels, and interviews I have participated in over the past three months. Academic
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A Kimberley Process for Cryptocurrencies
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Self-doxxing, dynamic block making and re-decentralization of mining
There are currently two popular interrelated narratives on social media surrounding participation of the block making process on a public
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A few known Bitcoin mining farms
[Note: the following overview on known Bitcoin mining farms was originally included in a new paper but needed to be
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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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The concept of night and day are archaic to a network that never sleeps
I have a couple new articles published over the past few days. The first one, “The Rise and Rise of
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Cryptocurrency in the news #30
When digital archeologists peruse Reddit in 20 years, to look at what happened to the Bitcoin community, it is posts
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Explaining trading volumes in China
CoinDesk recently reached out to me to ask and see if I had any views on the divergent Bitcoin trading
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False analogies in Bitcoinland plus Alibaba
Saw two analogies used today that are inaccurate. Writing at Forbes, Eric Mu interviewed Jake Smith, better known as “The
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Cryptocurrency in the news #26
Closing tabs. Some China related news scattered below as well. The Bank of England published a couple of papers that
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Some costs and pictures of Bitcoin mining in China
Jake Smith has another good article / overview of a large Bitcoin mining operation in China, “Inside one of the
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A panel covering Bitcoin in China
A couple weeks ago Coinsummit was held in London and one panel focused on Bitcoin in China. Moderator: Jeremy Liew
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How could smart contracts actually work (in China)?
A friend of mine sent me an email regarding my post and video yesterday about smart contracts, Ethereum and China:
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Cryptocurrency in the news #17 (and some on China)
Lot of interesting stories the past couple of weeks but I need to close some tabs. One older post of
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The advantages and challenges of mining bitcoins in China
I received some feedback from a veteran of the mining subindustry in China regarding my previous research on this space.
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How much energy is used to secure a $1 million bitcoin?
I have a new article over at Bitcoin Magazine called, Bitcoin: Made in China. It’s based off a paper (pdf)
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Interest rates and currency appreciation in China
My friend Mark DeWeaver, author of Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics (and who wrote the foreword to my book on
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Chinese exchanges collectively say “mea culpa”
Someone should call Kenny Loggins, the Chinese exchanges are flying pretty close to the danger zone. See Update 2 &