Dec 30, 2021What is money, really?One of my favorite stories in the Bible is in Acts 1. Jesus has been with the apostles for over 3 years. He’s also spent about 40 days with them after rising from the dead. He’s about to go up to heaven and leave them. They have one question they…Christianity5 min readChristianity5 min read
Oct 28, 2021On Christians Investing in BitcoinThe article by Greg Phelan published in The Gospel Coalition titled Ask the Economist: Should Christians Invest in Bitcoin? was one I looked at with great interest. I’m a Christian and a Bitcoiner. I’ve been teaching the technical and economic details of Bitcoin for over 5 years and have written…Bitcoin8 min readBitcoin8 min read
Jul 15, 2021The Triumph of Post-Modern Investing“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” — John Maynard Keynes To say that the current market is irrational would be an understatement. Stock prices are at historically high multiples of revenue. Bonds return almost nothing in the US and have negative rates in Europe. …Post Modern Philosophy8 min readPost Modern Philosophy8 min read
Mar 29, 2021Debunking the Empty Block AttackIt’s amazing how much effort critics expend on ways in which Bitcoin could not work. Few people ask about the vulnerabilities of USD for instance, which has a far greater impact globally yet in order to FUD Bitcoin, the same “concerns” are brought up again and again as if they…Blockchain9 min readBlockchain9 min read
Published inThe Bitcoin Times·Dec 26, 2020The Moral Case for BitcoinThe Bitcoin Times, Ed 3 One of the most important parts of the Bitcoin journey is learning to talk about Bitcoin in a way that connects with people. There have been a lot of approaches. There’s the investment case for bitcoin, the self-sovereignty case for bitcoin and even the societal…Bitcoin9 min readBitcoin9 min read
Jul 3, 2020Bitcoin: A Declaration of Monetary IndependenceThe system is rigged. We all can see it in the opulent residences of the rich in San Francisco which lie blocks away from the squalid tents of the homeless. We can feel it in the way that certain people and businesses do little to better civilization yet make ludicrous…Bitcoin8 min readBitcoin8 min read
May 20, 2020Why Satoshi (probably) didn’t move some coins from 2009On block 631058 was mined a transaction which spent an output from February of 2009, that is a month after the Bitcoin network went live. This has caused a bit of a price swing, not to mention, a lot of speculation, about whether this is Satoshi Nakamoto moving these coins…Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
Jan 24, 2020Debunking a Deceitful BCH ClaimJiang Zuouer of BTC.top posted a rather… interesting analysis of their plan to fund BCH development with 12.5% of the BCH coinbase award for 6 months starting in May. If you haven’t seen the proposal, the idea is for the miners to form a cartel where they will orphan any…Bitcoin7 min readBitcoin7 min read
Jan 6, 2020Learning EconomicsOver the past couple of weeks, I’ve gone through the Economics 11: Principles of Economics course on saifedean.com. In this article, I’m going to review the class, what I think about it and who I think it’s good for. The Austrian Method One of the things that has always attracted me to Austrian…Economics3 min readEconomics3 min read
Dec 20, 2019Why Exchanges Delist CoinsIf you haven’t heard yet, CoinFloor announced that the exchange will be Bitcoin-only come January 3, 2020. That is, they’ll delist BCH and ETH and concentrate only on BTC. Similarly BitGo is no longer supporting BSV given their p2sh rollback coming in a month. …Blockchain8 min readBlockchain8 min read