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Friday, February 3, 2023

Hey bitcoin owners, how are you paying for bitcoin's energy costs?

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Bitcoin miner in La Doré, Quebec via L'Étoile du Lac In what form do bitcoin holders bear bitcoin's huge energy costs? For the Bitco...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Why I prefer perpetual/premium bonds to the platinum coin

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1877 $50 Thirty-year Registered 4% Consol [ link ]. (A consol is a perpetual bond.) If I had to choose one of the tricks for getting around ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A big chunk of crypto is gambling. Why not regulate it that way?

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[This article was published last week in CoinDesk .] The Pluses and Minuses of Regulating Crypto as Gambling In the wake of FTX's shoc...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Why the steepest borrowing rate may be the best rate

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(This isn't a piece of financial advice. It's more of a fun parable about interest rates.) So here's an interesting financial ri...
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Thursday, January 5, 2023

Is crypto just gambling?

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Is crypto just gambling? That's a point I made in my recent "let it burn" blog post . (And I notice that the ECB's Fabio P...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

How Tether can stop being the stablecoin that everyone sells in a panic

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The not-so-stable price of Tether in 2022 on the Kraken exchange [Republished below is my latest article from CoinDesk.] How Tether Can Be ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Let it burn

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I sympathize with parts of the let it burn thesis. The thesis goes a bit like this: Crypto is mostly gambling. It provides very little of s...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Six reasons why FTX Japan survived while the rest of FTX burned

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[This is a reposting of my latest article for CoinDesk. Since writing the article, FTX has announced that it will be selling the few solve...
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Saturday, December 17, 2022

How cryptocurrency exchanges peg stablecoin prices

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An example of a stablecoin peg from the now defunct FTX US [ source ] This post is for anyone who is curious how cryptocurrency exchanges an...
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