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A deep dive on Bitcoin's flaws and how to fix them
Breaking down Bitcoin's issues and looking into how other cryptocurrencies have improved.
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Bitcoin's security spend is not looking good
Looking at Bitcoin's consistently diminishing security spending, or how fees are not replacing block rewards, leaving Bitcoin vulnerable.
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January 2023
Censorship resistance for freedom of speech
Freedom of speech does not mean much without freedom to transact. Opposition parties that see their funds seized are unable to campaign, protestors with…
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A self-sovereign monetary future
Many countries have seen trust in their currency eroded in recent years. Internet & crypto accelerate this trend. Crypto offers a paradigm change…
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Why CBDCs might be positive for crypto.
In short: CBDCs are new protocols being released. Being a digital protocol, CBDCs make it easier to compare fiat protocols to crypto protocols. As…
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December 2022
The Bucketing System: Prioritizing Transactions through Time and Balance
In this article I describe Nano’s method of transaction prioritization — a way to prioritise transactions without fees, yet offering spam resistance…
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October 2022
September 2022
February 2022
Shared illusions in money and what sustains them
What illusion causes us to see gold, money and crypto as valuable, and what could break the illusion?
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On weak vs strong network effects, temporary vs sustainable network effects, and first-mover advantages
How network effects work and why Bitcoin's first-mover advantage is insufficient to hide behind in the long run.
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January 2022
Why deflationary money can be both a store of value and a currency
I’ve seen this discussion pop up more often recently, so let’s dive in. In short, the argument goes that currencies need to be inflationary so that…
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Creating the theoretical best possible money (analyzing Elon Musk's thinking in Lex Fridman's podcast)
Digging into the core of what a perfect form of money would look like and applying this to crypto.
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