Ok, this space is vast and expanding at the ‘rate of thought’, having recently picked up a few books on this topic I can see some major disrupting use cases emerging. Up to now the real magic around crypto has been the ability for trust-less decentralised transactions to be injected into a public ledger (brilliant) …
DeFi – Decentralised Finance Will Eat Everything Read More »
Bitcoin is a journey, not a destination, and everyone is on their own path. Lockdown has been helpful in that over the past 2 years I have been looking deeper into the inner workings if the code required to run the bitcoin protocol, the idea of it being a store of value and a host …
My “4 BITCOIN REVELATIONS” – Adapted from the Stone Ridge Shareholder Report. Read More »
https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin/documents/stone-ridge-2020-shareholder-letter Dear Fellow Shareholder, Shortly before the genius David Foster Wallace died, he delivered a college commencement speech that opens with a beautiful critique of our “default setting.” “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, …
Biden’s fiscal stimulus plan could send the BTC price rocketing higher. https://cointelegraph.com/news/as-biden-preps-3t-stimulus-bitcoin-could-be-set-to-erupt
A new survey of 3,000 US consumers conducted by Cornerstone Advisors and FICO found that: 60% of smartphone owners have the PayPal app installed on their smartphone. 14% of PayPal users already own some form of cryptocurrency (in contrast to 8% of non-PayPal users). Of those PayPal users, 53% of them used Bitcoin to buy products or …
PayPal’s Crypto Service is Going to Be a Big Hit Read More »
Bitcoin is a new type of money that works very differently to traditional money. Bitcoin is for everyone No person, company, or organization is in control of Bitcoin: it’s a decentralized digital currency that’s powered by a huge, distributed network of computers. As such, when you own Bitcoin, only you have access to your funds. You’ll typically …