Professor Walter Block is clueless about Bitcoin
Peter Šurda 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…
Research update #1
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…
Status update, conference in San Jose and meeting professor Selgin
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…
Bitcoin at the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems
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 Mises Institute is clueless about Bitcoin
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)…
The economic fundamental of money substitutes
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…
Another interview with me, and my reaction to the recent media hysteria
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…
Response to Patrik Korda #4
This is a followup to the previous replies to Korda: Re: Bitcoin Bubble 2.0 by Patrik Korda The classification and the future of Bitcoin (another Re: Patrik Korda) Is Bitcoin…
Jeff Tucker interviewed me earlier today
The video is on youtube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FufYk_WDckw Edit: updated URL with a new version that has better audio sync.
… but you can use fiat to pay taxes!
One of the critiques I’ve heard regarding Bitcoin, in particular from fans of the Austrian school, is that you can use fiat money to pay taxes, and that gives it…