Crypto


Crypto is Modern Alchemy

November 11, 2019. You’re probably wondering - why is Meltem writing about alchemy? I thought we were supposed to be talking about this whole “bitcoin” thing. Give me a moment to bend your ear, my friend, we’ll get there shortly. Written by Meltem...
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A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications

January 09, 2020. Crypto founders have a unique challenge in front of them. In addition to building a product that people want, they also need to consider how that product can successfully run in a decentralized manner — that is, as a protocol owned and operated...
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Why Facebook’s Libra hangs in limbo—and what’s next in the digital currency race

December 19, 2019. Lessons from the fall and possible rise of a pioneering "stablecoin." The decor inside the offices on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, Calif., can best be described as “unfinished.” Steel girders crisscross overhead. Piping and air ducts pop out of plywood...
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The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics

September 27, 2017. Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts are from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the world’s first social science research centre into the economics, politics, sociology, and law of blockchain technology. The blockchain is a digital, decentralised, distributed ledger. Most explanations...
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Tokenizing Public Infrastructure Pt 1: Incentives and Commoditization

October 27, 2017.  I’ve been thinking a lot about America and how we can improve our country while things socially and politically continue to trudge forward in a state of apparent dysfunction. I tweeted this last week, and that got me thinking, so here...
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On Value, Velocity and Monetary Theory

January 19, 2018. Valuation methodologies have historically lagged behind the development of the assets they represent. While the Dutch East India Company became the first entity to sell stocks on a public exchange in the early 1600s, it was not until the 20th century that...
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Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing

September 27, 2019. Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is in fact backed by something. It is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money: the credibility of its monetary properties. Money is not a collective hallucination nor merely a belief system. Over...
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