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...

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 ...

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

(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...

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...

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 ...

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...

[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...

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...