2014

Robin Hood central banking

Robin Hood , N.C. Wyeth, 1917 There were plenty of reports in the press this year accusing central banks of behaving like King John, stealin...

As many of you might be familiar, there are a few key functions money needs to perform in our society. While the exact list may vary, here ...

After researching a lot of Crypto 2.0 systems ( tiny.cc/Crypto ), I started thinking about whether some systems could surpass Bitcoin. We h...

Marc Faber is a very knowledgeable guy, but thumbing through a copy of his most recent Gloom, Boom, & Doom Report , I stumbled on a pret...

A lot of people have spelled Bitcoin's doom in the past. From a 51% attack to some other vulnerabilities, a lot of technical pitfalls ar...

Jacob Little , legendary short seller. The Great Bear of Wall Street 1794 - 186 This is a guest post by Mike Sproul To understand short-sell...

As with any software out there, Bitcoin and related cryptocurrency systems occasionally get bugs and change some features of the network. Th...

On a recent trip to Ottawa, I stopped by the Bank of Canada. The door was locked and the building empty. Odd, I thought, why would the Bank ...

A few weeks ago during one of the Vancouver Bitcoin Meetups , we were introduced to the Gems platform . Gems is a social messaging app that ...

While I may have taken some jabs at the gold bugs in two recent posts, please don't take that to mean that I have it in for the metal ...

The price of 52 Samsung TVs gathered by the BPP, April 2008 - November 2009 ( Cavallo ) In a previous post , I mentioned that the Billion Pr...

I've discussed my various doubts about the delegated Proof of Stake a few moths back. Thinking about it some more recently, I have one ...

Does a lowering of a central bank's interest rates create inflation or deflation? Dubbed the ' Sign Wars ' by Nick Rowe, this ha...