What if Apple pegged its stock price at $1?

 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, ...

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The Money Protocols - Bitcoin, blockchain and others

I was recently sent a link to an article discussing the development of "the money protocol". The idea has been around for awhile ...

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Liquidity liquidity everywhere but not a drop to drink

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...

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Gaming Proof of Stake

While working on a draft for a paper for the upcoming Ledger academic journal  I came across the concept of " stake grinding ". Af...

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Are prices getting less sticky?

Sticky prices illustrated, from Eichenbaum, Jaimovich, and Rebelo ( link ) What makes ride sharing firm Uber interesting is not just its use...

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Liquid - when sidechains say "fuck it"

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...

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How I learned to stop worrying and accept deflation

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...

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Blockchain for banks - an overview

As discussed before , the banking world appears to be looking into the blockchain space with companies like Digital Asset Holdings  or R3 CE...

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