Conceited arrogance There is one thing that becomes apparent when reading Gary North’s articles. He knows a lot. But there is also another thing that becomes apparent sometimes, in particular…
Introduction In the last couple of days, Gary North has made posts about Bitcoin on his blog: Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History Digital Tulips: The Bitcoin Mania…
I haven’t posted a while, but that was because I have been reading, doing research for the book and writing it. I thought I’d post a quick update. I do…
This is a second article in a series (the first being Mises Institute is clueless about Bitcoin). Sadly, one of my favourite Austrian economists, Walter Block, seems to be making…
Conference Late Monday I returned from the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems (CCS) that took place in The Hague, Netherlands. I met with many researchers and practitioners, several…
I thought I’d post an update. I haven’t posted for a couple of weeks, but for a good reason. As some of you might know, last month I decided to…
I’ve been invited to the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems (CCS), taking place between 19th and 23rd June 2013, in The Hague, Netherlands. I’m on a panel on…
The Ludwig von Mises Institute (the one behind mises.org, located in Auburn, Alabama) posted several articles over the last week or so about Bitcoin: http://mises.org/daily/6399/The-Moneyness-of-Bitcoins (Nikolay Gertchev) http://mises.org/daily/6401/Bitcoin-Money-of-the-Future-or-OldFashioned-Bubble (Patrik Korda)…
Since Patrik Korda still criticises my approach to money substitutes, I thought I’d summarise here their fundamentals. This is not a definition of a money substitute, nor an exhaustive listing…
The Slovak bitcoin Blog “bicoiner.sk” published a brief interview with me (I’ll translate it when I have a bit more time): http://bitcoiner.sk/bitcoinova-horucka-kurz-presiahol-220-co-na-to-odbornik/. However, there is an important thing that I…
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