Secondary and debt markets for exchanges joni Agustus 15, 2016 Add Comment Bitfinex, debt, hack, IOU, MtGox, Ripple Edit As discussed last week , Bitfinex has followed through with their bail-in and gave all of their users a 36% "haircut" . While not ... Read More
Avoiding Bitfinex scenarios with Voting Pools joni Agustus 08, 2016 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, Bitfinex, hack, Ripple, theft, Voting Pools Edit This week, a high-profile Bitcoin theft took place at the Bitfinex exchange. The attacker reportedly stole 119'756BTC, worth about 70.5... Read More
Contentious Bitcoin fork WILL create a split joni Agustus 01, 2016 Add Comment 51% attack, Bitcoin, BitcoinXT, Ethereum, Exchanges, fork Edit The Bitcoin community has debated a potential hardfork to Bitcoin for over a year now . There have been various solutions proposed to chang... Read More
Monetary policy as a system of connected lakes (a post for John Hussman) joni Juli 31, 2016 Add Comment Federal Reserve, hot potato effect, inflation Edit I always like reading fund manager John Hussman because he writes very well, but I feel like he's dug himself into a bit of an intellec... Read More
Helicopter money, Canadian-style joni Juli 26, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Canada, helicopter money Edit Proponents of helicopter money have been getting a lot of press lately, but I don't really get what all the excitement is about. I live ... Read More
How not to blockchain - a look at OneCoin joni Juli 26, 2016 1 Comment Blockchain, OneCoin, Permissioned Blockchain, scam Edit In the recent weeks there has been a resurgence of news about OneCoin , what appears to be a high-profile MLM ponzi scheme disguised as an ... Read More
Transactional currencies - Entry Credits and Gas joni Juli 18, 2016 Add Comment Altcoins, Ethereum, Factom Edit DISCLAIMER: While I work for Factom, the opinions expressed in this piece are, as always, my own. ---- Working at Factom I came across an i... Read More