For the unbankables joni Oktober 29, 2014 Add Comment Edit When someone starts learning about Bitcoin, they usually gain a lot of knowledge in a number of tangential topics as well. Public key crypto... Read More
Fear of illiquidity joni Oktober 28, 2014 Add Comment lender of last resort, Liquidity insurance Edit There are thousands of fears, from arachnophobia to globophobia (fear of balloons) to zoophobia (fear of animals). What might the fear of... Read More
Fedcoin joni Oktober 19, 2014 Add Comment anonymity, Bitcoin, cash, Fedcoin, Federal Reserve, Fedwire, fintech, Ripple, zero lower bound Edit Recent posts by Adrian Hope Baille and Sina Motamedi have got me thinking again about the idea of the Federal Reserve (or any other centra... Read More
PFG - some games are more fair than others joni Oktober 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit The concept of Provably Fair Gambling has existed in the Bitcoin space for a few years now. It was popularized by such websites like Satoshi... Read More
The market monetarist smell test joni Oktober 12, 2014 Add Comment market monetarism, Miles Kimball, Scott Sumner Edit I gave myself a quick whiff this week to determine if I pass the market monetarist smell test. This is by no means definitive, nor is this a... Read More
Redefining "currency" joni Oktober 09, 2014 Add Comment Edit Everyone likes neat definitions of things and being able to categorize what something is. Unfortunately, Bitcoin appears to defy the traditi... Read More
Stock as a medium of exchange joni Oktober 04, 2014 Add Comment Argentina, inflation, medium of exchange, stock market and equities, Zimbabwe Edit American Depository Receipt (ADR) for Sony Corp You've heard the story before. It goes something like this. There's one unique good ... Read More