Cryptocurrency
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Will Money and Finance Keep Decentralizing or Not?
What decentralized finance really needs is something entirely new. Something that regular finance can’t replicate. Something so useful that regular consumers will desert their bank to use it. This killer tool hasn’t been created.
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The Dollar, Not Crypto, Is a National Security Issue
If the current path is maintained (and quite possibly even if it isn’t), the future belongs to truly “dependable and reliable” monetary media: cryptocurrencies and precious metals
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Competition Among Cryptocurrencies Is Likely Here to Stay
The idea of inevitability does not mix well with the logic of markets. We need markets and competition precisely because as human beings we have nowhere near the information or capacity necessary to make deterministic statements about the future.
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Listen to Your Crypto Update
There is so much going on right now in cryptoland. Here are two audio interviews.
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Bitcoin Remains Vastly More Volatile Than Traditional Currencies
While reading tea leaves based on Bitcoin’s price to predict the cryptocurrency’s ultimate success is tempting, its day-to-day volatility is perhaps more important in determining its practicality as a store of value.
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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes
The Libra could be to money and finance what Henry Ford was to automobiles.
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A Currency Upheaval Is Coming
If the managers of the dollar instead seek isolation, protection, sanctions, blacklisting, and devaluation, powerful market forces will continue to seek alternatives.
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Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?
Facebook’s Libra is easily and probably rightly criticized by crypto purists as a halfway house that makes too many concessions to legacy systems and plays too nicely with the existing regulatory system. All true. But that’s not where the story ends.
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Did You Write Your Bitcoin Obituary in Time?
Because so many lack the patience to understand, and perhaps because so few can explain it coherently, there is a strange lust in the land to debunk the whole thing. Every single time the market drops, people get busy writing obituaries for crypto. I’ve been seeing these appear since the market price was $14.
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Smart Contracts Are All Around You
You should be able to take advantage of smart contracts in many ways, and in many situations, if you just understand smart contracts are a way of managing contingencies.
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Will Money and Finance Keep Decentralizing or Not?
What decentralized finance really needs is something entirely new. Something that regular finance can’t replicate. Something so useful that regular consumers will desert their bank to use it. This killer tool hasn’t been created.
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The Dollar, Not Crypto, Is a National Security Issue
If the current path is maintained (and quite possibly even if it isn’t), the future belongs to truly “dependable and reliable” monetary media: cryptocurrencies and precious metals
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•
Competition Among Cryptocurrencies Is Likely Here to Stay
The idea of inevitability does not mix well with the logic of markets. We need markets and competition precisely because as human beings we have nowhere near the information or capacity necessary to make deterministic statements about the future.
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Listen to Your Crypto Update
There is so much going on right now in cryptoland. Here are two audio interviews.
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Bitcoin Remains Vastly More Volatile Than Traditional Currencies
While reading tea leaves based on Bitcoin’s price to predict the cryptocurrency’s ultimate success is tempting, its day-to-day volatility is perhaps more important in determining its practicality as a store of value.
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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes
The Libra could be to money and finance what Henry Ford was to automobiles.
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•
A Currency Upheaval Is Coming
If the managers of the dollar instead seek isolation, protection, sanctions, blacklisting, and devaluation, powerful market forces will continue to seek alternatives.
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Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?
Facebook’s Libra is easily and probably rightly criticized by crypto purists as a halfway house that makes too many concessions to legacy systems and plays too nicely with the existing regulatory system. All true. But that’s not where the story ends.
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Did You Write Your Bitcoin Obituary in Time?
Because so many lack the patience to understand, and perhaps because so few can explain it coherently, there is a strange lust in the land to debunk the whole thing. Every single time the market drops, people get busy writing obituaries for crypto. I’ve been seeing these appear since the market price was $14.
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Smart Contracts Are All Around You
You should be able to take advantage of smart contracts in many ways, and in many situations, if you just understand smart contracts are a way of managing contingencies.