Topic: Cryptocurrency

The IMF is Wrong – and Right – About Crypto

“The IMF and FSB’s recommendations are transparently pro-government and anti-citizen. They overstate the potential harm of cryptocurrencies and propose monitoring systems that would benefit tyrannical governments at the expense of the public.” ~Thomas L. Hogan

My Big Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme

“I like to explore innovations that promise not violent overthrow but rather ways to undermine or circumvent unjust authorities or corrupt incumbents.” ~ Max Borders

The Mating of Economic Ideas and Bitcoin

“As Bitcoin is a highly decentralized and antifragile system with no real-world backed assets that can be seized to shut it down, appears to be the only realistic candidate to introduce something that government cannot stop.” ~ Emile Phaneuf III

The SEC’s Illegal War on Crypto

“SEC officials have relied on opaque and discretionary enforcement actions. They have charged companies for not complying with the law without clearly stating what the law is.” ~ Thomas L. Hogan

DeSantis Takes the Lead on Fed Reforms

“According to DeSantis, political elites want to ‘regulate [bitcoin] out of existence’ because it threatens their plans for social control. He’s right.” ~ Alexander W. Salter

Liberty Curious, with Kate Wand and Tom Hogan

“The SEC has charged crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase with facilitating the trade of unregistered securities. Yet the opacity of the statute as it pertains to crypto and the SEC’s arbitrary and contradictory application have made compliance with the law impossible.”

Bitcoin’s Philosophical Origins with Emile Phaneuf

Joining Kate Wand on ‘Liberty Curious’ is independent thinker & writer Emile Phaneuf, to discuss the origins of Bitcoin, and its philosophical influences including the writings of Hayek, Ayn Rand and David Friedman.

Decentralization and Bitcoin

“Bitcoin itself is a currency that might best be considered existing in a state of anarchy.” ~ Emile Phaneuf

CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis

“The CEA’s argument would result in a failure on an introductory microeconomics exam. One expects better from a team of professional economists.” ~ Joshua R. Hendrickson

Cypherpunks, Galt’s Gulch, and Bitcoin

“Whatever one’s view on Rand, there is no denying her strong influence on the early Cypherpunks who ‘wrote code’ in a decades-long attempt to realize some cyberspace version of the laissez-faire capitalism that she boldly advocated for in real space.” ~ Emile Phaneuf

On the origins of cryptocurrencies

Pornhub and the Value of Bitcoin