The Bitcoin Bullshit List joni Juli 04, 2016 Add Comment analysis, Bitcoin, fun, scam Edit If you hand around the Bitcoin space for awhile, you will inadvertently come across a few or a few hundred copycoins , scamcoins, scams, p... Read More
The Fedwire recession joni Juni 28, 2016 Add Comment clearing and settlement, David Beckworth, Federal Reserve, Fedwire Edit I last wrote about Fedwire data two years ago. Since then, Fedwire has entered into a (nominal) recession. Is this something we need to wor... Read More
A retrospective on one hundred posts joni Juni 27, 2016 Add Comment Bitcoin, Blockchain, blog, Crypto 2.0, milestone Edit Last week marked a 100th post I have posted on this blog since about 2.5 years I've been blogging somewhat regularly. Today I would lik... Read More
Perfection or bust - the rise and fall of The DAO joni Juni 20, 2016 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, bugs, DAO, Ethereum, hack, Ripple Edit Full disclosure - I own some ether and I have put some of it into The DAO presale. I don't think it coloured my view of the situation, b... Read More
Bitcoin historical rallies, halvenings and bubbles joni Juni 13, 2016 Add Comment Bitcoin, bubble, halvening, MtGox, value bubble Edit As of the time of writing, we are less than 4'000 blocks / one month away from Bitcoin's second halvening (the 4-year block reward... Read More
Zimbabwe Shouldn't Be Printing Banknotes Again joni Juni 07, 2016 Add Comment cash, inflation, unit of account, Zimbabwe Edit A Zimbabwean washes U.S. dollars, from NPR Planet Money Here's a surprising development. Zimbabwe, a dollarized nation, is on the verge... Read More
What happens when a central bank splits in two? joni Juni 02, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Greece, counterfeiting, fungibility, medium of account Edit Say the San Francisco Fed decided to secede from the Federal Reserve System or the Bank of Greece started to print its own euro notes withou... Read More