Topic: Cryptocurrency

Crypto’s Privacy/Commingling Dilemma

– March 31, 2022

“Mixing is a less-than ideal way to gain privacy. In solving for privacy, mixing introduces another problem; commingling. When you use a mixing tool, you’re introducing your licit funds into the same pot as potentially criminally-derived funds.” ~ J.P. Koning

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Native American Tribe Hopes to Colonize the World With Digital Freedom

– March 30, 2022

“If the Green Earth Zone project is successful, Native Americans – of all people – will have saved a few scraps of freedom. That they’re willing to share that freedom with the rest of us speaks volumes about the integrity of the Catawba people.” ~ Max Borders

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Where Does Saifedean Think Money Comes From?

– March 24, 2022

“There’s plenty wrong with central banking, no doubt, but showering broken institutions with infinite credit lines and opportunity-cost free funding isn’t one of them.” ~ Joakim Book

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Not Every “Crypto” Is Decentralized: Proof-of-Work vs Proof-of-Stake

– March 23, 2022

“Policymakers seeking to ban Proof-of-Work, or thinking it can be easily replaced by Proof-of-Stake would do well to keep the inherent and important tradeoffs between the two consensus mechanisms in mind.” ~ David Waugh

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Thinking Straight about Bitcoin’s Social Costs and Benefits

– March 13, 2022

“To view Bitcoin transactions as problematic, as a cost rather than a benefit, would be to view things like a state advocate rather than like a consumer advocate.” ~ Lawrence H. White

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Trudeau’s Tactics Are Coming to America: Learn Crypto Custody

– February 24, 2022

“Whether you are a donor or a recipient, make sure to learn how to be a custodian of your cryptocurrency. Learning about crypto will help keep the lights blinking in America. After all, the Biden Administration has already made threats.” ~ Max Borders

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Making Money Myths

– February 14, 2022

“NQA banknote systems have existed in the past. It follows that private NQA paper currency is perfectly possible. It might still be true, of course, that private NQA digital currency isn’t possible. But if I were you, I wouldn’t take Gary Gorton’s word for it.” ~ George Selgin

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Missed it by That Much: Where the Fed’s Digital Currency Proposal Goes Wrong

– February 7, 2022

“Whereas the sCBDC plan allows for numerous, entirely distinct retail digital currencies, the Fed’s iCBDC plan provides for a single digital currency only, albeit one offered at and administered by numerous private-sector firms.” ~ George Selgin

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Can DAOs Revive Civil Society?

– January 20, 2022

“New technology could help to revive America’s flagging civil society. DAOs significantly lower the costs of association, empowering individuals to create solutions to social problems free from governmental burdens.” ~ David Waugh & Robert E. Wright

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Bitcoin Is Not a Battery

– January 18, 2022

“One should not care about the dollar price of bitcoin or the bitcoin price of bitcoin. What really matters is how many real goods and services one can buy with bitcoin––that is, its real purchasing power.” ~ William J. Luther

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On Price and Output Volatility: How Bad is Bitcoin’s Flaw?

– December 20, 2021

“The working arrangements of a new generation of freelancing nomads are keen on and capable of handling the discrepancies between many currencies’ relative purchasing power, crypto or old-school.” ~ Joakim Book

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Disrupting the Five Temples of Power

– December 16, 2021

“Yes, there will be setbacks. And things are likely to get worse before they get better. But the Decentralist revolution is a djinn, and Satoshi Nakamoto opened the bottle back in 2009.” ~ Max Borders

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