Tau-Chain - a programmer's perspective

EDIT: After speaking to Ohad Asor, the creator of Tau, about the below piece, it's apparently "blatant obvious nonsense about thing...

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From ancient electrum to modern currency baskets (with a quick detour through symmetallism)

Electrum coins [ source ] First proposed by economist Alfred Marshall in the late 19th century as an alternative metallic standard to the go...

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Bitcoin rivals

Recently I came by a tweet by Andreas Antonopoulos stating: Stop calling ethereum "the bitcoin rival". No one in ethereum or bitc...

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Those new Japanese safety deposit boxes must all be empty

Remember all the hoopla about Japanese buying safety deposit boxes to hold cash in response to the Bank of Japan's decision to set negat...

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Aggressive vs defensive debasement

COINING IN PARIS c. 1500  (From a French print c. 1755) Not all debasements, or reductions of the precious metals content of coins, are equa...

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Deniable proof of Satoshi

About two weeks ago in the Bitcoin community we were dealing with a bit of drama surrounding dr. Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi , convi...

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What makes medieval money different from modern money?

What's the main difference between our modern monetary system and the system they had in the medieval ages? Most of you will probably an...

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