Unknown 10:12 AM 1 Comment Crypto 2.0, premining, Ripple, tokens 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... Read More
Unknown 10:04 PM Add Comment Crypto 2.0, premining, Ripple, tokens 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... Read More
Unknown 7:30 PM Add Comment Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Euro, Europe, Greece, Ripple 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 ... Read More
Unknown 11:45 PM 12 Comments Attacks, Bitcoin, BitShares, Consensus, CounterParty, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, Mastercoin, mining, Omni, Ripple 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... Read More
Unknown 4:37 AM 1 Comment BitShares, Comparison, Crypto 2.0, IOU, Ripple 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... Read More
Unknown 11:04 PM Add Comment art, Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, gold, Ripple 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... Read More
Unknown 10:36 AM Add Comment FinCEN, IPO, presale, regulations, Ripple On FinCEN fines and regulations - the fate of token IPOs Yesterday the news about Ripple Labs being fined by FinCEN for their sale of XRP without an MSB license came out. While some have rejoice... Read More
Unknown 11:04 PM Add Comment LETS, Ripple, time banking Time banking - economics of sharing economy - pondering Time Republik Recently at Decentral Vancouver we had a visit from folks from Time Republik , a time banking platform for a sharing economy. We discussed ... Read More
Unknown 9:57 PM Add Comment Codius, Crypto 2.0, Ripple, smart contracts, Smart Oracles 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... Read More
Unknown 10:59 PM Add Comment Bitcoin, Factom, incentives, Mastercoin, Omni, Ripple, tokens Shipping without incentives and features Recently I was doing some research into Factom , a new project that aims to embed a lot of data into the Bitcoin blockchain and create a ... Read More
Unknown 11:26 AM Add Comment Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Exchanges, Gateways, Ripple, Singularity of Money 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... Read More
Unknown 11:34 AM Add Comment Crypto 2.0, LETS, Open Transactions, Ripple 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... Read More