Adventures and fascinations of Matt Pāz
We’ll take a quick pause from the Gradually, Then Suddenly articles to hit you with another great piece on the macroeconomic conundrum the world finds itself in written by a Bitcoin Wizard, James O’Beirne.
The thesis of this article is not new, but the message bears repeating.… Read more
Here is the next installation of Parker Lewis’s Gradually, Then Suddenly articles.
In this rip, Parker dismantles the popular misconception that Bitcoin is a failure as a medium of exchange. Anyone who has studied the matter properly knows that Bitcoin’s base layer protocol was never designed to compete with Visa to make payments for groceries or coffee.… Read more
Here is the fourth installment in Mr. Lewis’s epic series of articles, Gradually, Then Suddenly.
Since the early days of Bitcoin, there has been a constant stream of content deriding the network’s “wasteful” energy consumption. To begin, this argument is flawed: Bitcoin miners pay market rate for electricity consumed, which by definition means the energy is not wasted.… Read more
Here is the third installation of the Gradually, Then Suddenly series of articles by Parker Lewis. If you haven’t read the first and second offerings yet, be sure to do so–these articles are really fantastic.
I used to say that the Bitcoin price is volatile, but as a long-term asset (notwithstanding poor key management) it is not risky.… Read more
Here is the next installment in Parker Lewis’ Gradually, Then Suddenly series. Here he dives into what makes Bitcoin unique, and why the thousands of alternative cryptocurrencies cannot get anywhere near the value proposition that Bitcoin offers, despite what the creators and bag-holders of those altcoins, or other uninformed observers, might claim.… Read more