Gold's rising convenience yield joni Sabtu, 29 November 2014 Add Comment convenience yield, crude oil, futures theory, gold Edit 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 ... Read More
Not your father's price index: the Billion Prices Project joni Minggu, 23 November 2014 Add Comment Billion Prices Project, gold, inflation Edit 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... Read More
Proof of Stake lacks a fail-safe joni Sabtu, 22 November 2014 Add Comment 51% attack, BitShares, Proof of Stake, Proof of Work Edit 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 ... Read More
Sign Wars joni Sabtu, 15 November 2014 Add Comment David Beckworth, deflation, fundamental value, inflation, John Cochrane, liquidity premium, Neo-Fisherism, Nick Rowe, notgeld, Weimar hyperinflation Edit Does a lowering of a central bank's interest rates create inflation or deflation? Dubbed the ' Sign Wars ' by Nick Rowe, this ha... Read More
Open Riptherium - thoughts on the "ultimate" platform joni Kamis, 13 November 2014 Add Comment Edit Counterparty recently announced its full port of the Ethereum's turing-complete programming language into its platform. Some people are... Read More
Gilded cage joni Selasa, 04 November 2014 Add Comment Billion Prices Project, gold, gold standard Edit This blog wouldn't be around if it wasn't for gold bugs. Many moons ago my former-employer (and friend), the truest gold bug you... Read More