April 2015

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Pondering Codius - where the smart oracles live

Back in 2013 I attended the Ripple Developer Conference at Money2020. One of the interesting presentations that stood out to me was a discu...

Recently I was doing some research into Factom , a new project that aims to embed a lot of data into the Bitcoin blockchain and create a ...

Unfathomable Depths by Ibai Acevedo Denmark's Nationalbank and the Swiss National Bank are the world's most interesting central ban...

I am a strong believer in the Crypto 2.0 space . I see the world heading towards the Singularity of Money , where the currency we transact i...

John Cochrane has written two posts that question the ability to implement negative interest rates given the wide range of 0%-yielding es...

Bitcoin is the money system of geeks. While you don't need to be one to use it nowadays, it is still undeniably complex. The way it uses...

Last week Citi's Willem Buiter published a note on the three ways to get rid of the effective lower bound to nominal interest rates, on...

In his first blog skirmish , Ben Bernanke took on Larry Summers' secular stagnation thesis, generating a slew of commentary by other blo...

This week at Decentral Vancouver we had a discussion with Michael Linton and Dominique Legault from Open Money about the LETS ( full recor...