Mei 2015

BitShares - probably the first self-sustaining DAO

For over a year, the Bitcoin world has been intrigued with the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - quasi-corporations follo...

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs about a topic that I haven't heard cov...

This post is about the Alberta Prosperity Certificate , one of the world's stranger monetary experiments. Issued in late 1936 and early ...

Last Thursday at Decentral Vancouver we were discussing BitShares and BitUSD with Max Wright (I recommend his BitShares 101 series of vid...

When thinking about a currency on a simple exchange as a fairly inert object. You can throw money at the market, swing it up or down, but wi...

In the last few months a lot of people have been talking about the "mysterious 21 Inc " - a Bitcoin startup that raised $116M in r...

In the recent years there have been a few attempts at creating digital identities using cryptography and the blockchain. We had BitID using...

Fungibility is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab...

The FT makes a hullabaloo out of Greece using special drawing rights (SDR) to pay the IMF earlier this week, referring to the step as ...

Measuring liquidity is a pain in the ass. The value of a good, say an apple, is easy to calculate; just look at the market price for apples....

Yesterday the news about Ripple Labs being fined by FinCEN for their sale of XRP without an MSB license came out. While some have rejoice...