What if Apple pegged its stock price at $1? joni Jumat, 30 Oktober 2015 Add Comment money illusion, stock market and equities Edit Would it make sense for Apple to peg its stock price at $1? If so, how would it go about doing this? From the perspective of shareholders, ... Read More
The Money Protocols - Bitcoin, blockchain and others joni Senin, 26 Oktober 2015 Add Comment Bitcoin, BitShares, IOU, Proof of Existence, protocols, Ripple, Singularity of Money, smart contracts, Smart Oracles Edit I was recently sent a link to an article discussing the development of "the money protocol". The idea has been around for awhile ... Read More
Liquidity liquidity everywhere but not a drop to drink joni Sabtu, 24 Oktober 2015 Add Comment fintech, Liquidity insurance, liquidity options Edit One of Gustave Doré's illustrations of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , plate 4 The minsicule bid ask spreads we see in financial marke... Read More
Gaming Proof of Stake joni Senin, 19 Oktober 2015 Add Comment academic journal, BitShares, CGP Grey, Delegated Proof of Stake, Ledger, NXT, Peercoin, Proof of Stake, stake grinding, voting Edit While working on a draft for a paper for the upcoming Ledger academic journal I came across the concept of " stake grinding ". Af... Read More
Are prices getting less sticky? joni Rabu, 14 Oktober 2015 Add Comment Billion Prices Project, history of thought, sticky prices, the moral economy Edit Sticky prices illustrated, from Eichenbaum, Jaimovich, and Rebelo ( link ) What makes ride sharing firm Uber interesting is not just its use... Read More
Liquid - when sidechains say "fuck it" joni Add Comment analysis, Liquid, Sidechains Edit We had big news in the Bitcoin world - Blockstream, the company that has been working on sidechains for awhile has announced they will be la... Read More
How I learned to stop worrying and accept deflation joni Senin, 05 Oktober 2015 Add Comment convenience yield, deflation, inflation Edit Why can't we create inflation anymore? Maybe it's because money isn't what it used to be. Money used to be like a car; the marke... Read More
Blockchain for banks - an overview joni Add Comment Banks, Blockchain, Crypto 2.0, Permissioned Blockchain Edit As discussed before , the banking world appears to be looking into the blockchain space with companies like Digital Asset Holdings or R3 CE... Read More