A legitimate reason for premining tokens

In the Bitcoin world, the term "premining" is a dirty word and for a good reason. There have been numerous preminted altcoins out...

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Reverse BitPay - receive fiat payments, get paid in Bitcoin

There are a lot of projects in the Bitcoin space that act as Bitcoin to fiat bridges - they accept Bitcoin and sometimes other currencies o...

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Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation

Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin...

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The Regime Test - a Great Filter for the cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency. Just like gold, nobody owns the system and no single entity controls the market. While some gov...

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A legitimate reason for premining tokens

In the Bitcoin world, the term "premining" is a dirty word and for a good reason. There have been numerous preminted altcoins out...

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Reverse BitPay - receive fiat payments, get paid in Bitcoin

There are a lot of projects in the Bitcoin space that act as Bitcoin to fiat bridges - they accept Bitcoin and sometimes other currencies o...

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Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation

Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin...

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Cryptos - the anti-euro

In the light of recent banking problems in Greece, it might be interesting to revisit the ideas behind the Euro and how they hold up in the ...

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BitShares - probably the first self-sustaining DAO

For over a year, the Bitcoin world has been intrigued with the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations  - quasi-corporations follo...

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Mining versus Consensus algorithms in Crypto 2.0 systems

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs  about a topic that I haven't heard cov...

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BitUSD vs USD IOUs

Last Thursday at Decentral Vancouver  we were discussing BitShares and BitUSD with Max Wright  (I recommend his BitShares 101 series of vid...

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Inert versus volatile currencies - pondering an attack on BitUSD

When thinking about a currency on a simple exchange as a fairly inert object. You can throw money at the market, swing it up or down, but wi...

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Non-fungible currencies - gold bars and art

Fungibility  is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab...

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Pondering Codius - where the smart oracles live

Back in 2013 I attended the Ripple Developer Conference at Money2020. One of the interesting presentations that stood out to me was a discu...

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Specialists, not generalists - the upcoming service fragmentation in the 2.0 world

I am a strong believer in the Crypto 2.0 space . I see the world heading towards the Singularity of Money , where the currency we transact i...

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Trust-based currencies - good money, bad money, LETS, Ripple, etc.

This week at Decentral Vancouver  we had a discussion with Michael Linton and Dominique Legault from Open Money  about the LETS ( full recor...

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