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Banks Aren’t Snowflakes (so stop trying to protect them from stablecoins)The debate around yield-bearing stables is based on several false assumptionsMar 30Mar 30
A Strategic Crypto Reserve is Bad for America, and CryptoAmerica and the crypto industry both seemed to have dodged a bullet last week when President Trump announced a far less ambitious Bitcoin…Mar 91Mar 91
Why the ByBit Hack Counterintuitively Proves the Utility of Public Crypto Networks Like EthereumScarcity and predictability in a digital setting are a major force for good, despite the obvious downsidesFeb 22Feb 22
On Trump’s Celebrity CoinTrump may be good for crypto, but the TRUMP coin is certainly badJan 22Jan 22
Bitcoin Has Plenty of Utility: A Rebuttal to “The The distributional consequences of Bitcoin” by…Bitcoin is monetary insurance — a service that provides a lot of utility in a fragmenting world.Oct 20, 2024Oct 20, 2024
On the Status of Bitcoin as a Flight to Quality AssetBitcoin’s decline yesterday on news of Iran attacking Israel has inspired another round of mockery from the skeptics about its “flight to…Oct 2, 2024Oct 2, 2024
