The 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…

“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. Real…

It’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…

The 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…

The 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…

On 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…

Jiang 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…

Over 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…

If 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. This is welcome news, not the…