Adventures and fascinations of Matt Pāz
Here is an interesting article by a Mr. Felipe Pereira that examines how Bitcoin is disruptive to nation states’ power and how this might play out in the future.
Bitcoin’s politically disruptive nature follows from the idea that individual sovereignty is based on the dynamic between the cost to defend private property and the return on violence.… Read more
My buddy Nico (@r0ckstardev) recently joined Zap Lightning Wallet as a full-time developer. He has been telling me they were working on something big, but was cagey with the details. Now we learn what they have been up to: Olympus, a bitcoin/fiat on- and off-ramp service over the lightning network.… Read more
Well, well, well. Something very interesting happened this past week: the US Department of Justice filed charges against three top traders working on JPMorgan’s precious metals desk for manipulating metals prices over the past decade.
Finally, the gold and silver bugs who have been shouting of blatant manipulation in metals prices (and often being ridiculed or labeled conspiracy theorists) are being vindicated.… Read more
Here’s an article by Harold Burger that models Bitcoin’s price using a power-law function. An exponential function is the only thing that makes sense given that Bitcoin’s price has risen by an order of magnitude once every few years. This is why it’s better to look at the long-term Bitcoin price using logarithmic chart scales rather than linear.… Read more
There’s been a huge breadth of extraordinary Bitcoin content lately. I can hardly keep up. It’s great.
This article is incredible. Nic Carter details the monetary and political revolution that is Bitcoin. If you read only one Bitcoin piece all year, this should be it.… Read more