While we wait for another Bitcoin black swan event
I was interviewed and quoted a few times in the past couple weeks: Is Bitcoin Stalling? at Technology Review: The […]
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Economics
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Can Bitcoin’s internal economy securely grow relative to its outputs?
How do economies grow? At the end of the day, that is ultimately the question that the Bitcoin community is
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Is the adoption of blockchains and consensus ledgers a foregone conclusion?
Earlier this evening I gave a new presentation to the Sim Kee Boon Institute (SKBI) for Financial Economics at Singapore
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The myth of a cheaper Bitcoin network: a note about transaction processing, currency conversion and Bitcoinland
Recently the Museum of American Finance hosted an event covering Bitcoin. One of the panelists allegedly said: “we don’t think
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What is the blockchain hard fork “missile crisis?”
Over the past couple of months there has been a number of discussions revolving around increasing the Bitcoin block size
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Videos from Cryptoeconomicon event
A few of the videos from the Cryptoeconomicon event are now online (repo). If you are interested, below are two
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Interview with Epicenter Bitcoin
About two weeks ago I was interviewed over at Epicenter Bitcoin. We covered a number of topics, some of which
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Cryptoeconomics for beginners and experts alike
This past week Koinify and the Cryptocurrency Research Group (CCRG), a new academic organization, held a 3-day event — the
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Slicing data: what comprises blockchain transactions?
[Note: a PDF version of this is available] Over the past month we have seen nominal transaction volume on the
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New presentation over at O’Reilly Media on BINO
I have a new O’Reilly Media presentation up online called: “Moving Beyond Bitcoin (BINO) Beta:Transitioning mindshare from Bitcoin-for-everything monopoly to
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How do Bitcoin payment processors work?
Yesterday there was a discussion on a listserve about Brian Kelly’s hypothesis’ regarding bitcoin exchange rates and below is an
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Are there changes in the volume of retail transactions through Bitpay this past year?
A couple days ago I noted that because Bitpay reuses its addresses, it is possible to monitor them and that
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Does spending decrease as purchasing power declines?
Last year Peter Coy illustrated what a deflationary economy looks like (such as the Bitcoin economy) and explained how this
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Guest presentation with O’Reilly media
About a week ago I gave a guest presentation (webcast) with O’Reilly media regarding the “Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins
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Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Squeezing utility from a proof-of-work experiment
Earlier today I gave the following presenation at the R3 Cryptocurrency Round Table in Palo Alto. It covers “Bitcoin 2.0”
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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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What’s the deal with off-chain transactions?
Based on comments from both reddit and Coindesk, the number one question today seems to be related to off-chain transactions.
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Approximately 70% of all bitcoins have not moved in 6 or more months
Back in May I published a blockchain analysis piece on Coindesk that utilized graphs created by John Ratcliff. Ratcliff published
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Panel for Follow The Coin with Tina Hui and Jackson Palmer
On Tuesday I was a panelist on a new segment from Follow The Coin, hosted by Tina Hui. The other
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Quotes about cryptocurrency in Singapore
I was asked to provide some comments related to the SKBI conference last week in Singapore. Below are my full
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Moving Beyond BINO Beta
Last week I participated in a couple panels at the inaugural CAIA-SKBI Cryptocurrency Conference 2014 hosted at Singapore Management University.
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Blockstream’s sidechain’s is announced
I just finished reading through the new sidechains paper (pdf). The team has clearly been thinking of clever solutions to
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Thoughts on the 2.0 space
Last week CoinDesk reached out and asked several questions related to Koinify and published a few of the comments in
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Cryptocurrency in the news #29
Turns out about 15 months ago, someone had already figured out how the mining costs of hash-based proof of work
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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