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Regulation in the Crypto Space
The Cost of Maintaining the Bitcoin Network
Part of a thought-leadership series by Aaro Capital The Bitcoin network is maintained by miners, who keep a copy of all previous blocks of transactions and compete to write new blocks, in order to earn transaction fees and newly created coins. In this report, we…
Avoiding the Bitcoin nuclear option. Road to Bitcoin Hegemony
“I don’t know what weapons they’ll use to fight World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Einstein made this prediction during a very specific period of paranoia brought by the ever-present threat of The Bomb. But he was…
A Tale of Two Currencies. Road to Bitcoin Hegemony
Bitcoin and USD’s monetary anniversaries illustrate money’s imperfect past and its limitless future. Happy Birthdays Bitcoin If you ever doubted that Bitcoin was the King of Currencies, consider how many “birthdays” it has. While our own monarch has just two, Bitcoin is even more regal:…
Bitcoin Prediction for Fun and Prophet. Road to Bitcoin Hegemony
Bitcoin Prediction for Fun and Prophet “The young lion will overcome the older one, With blazoned orange standard comes; When fools trust gold and glistering things: One coin alone will make men kings.“ OK, I’m no Nostradamus. When I talk about the future, I don’t…
Assassin’s Greed: The Craving for Control. Road to Bitcoin Hegemony
Assassin’s Greed: The Craving for Control The higher Bitcoin climbs, the more momentum it gains, the more the regulators circle and seek to check it’s stratospheric rise. The latest attempt to disrupt Bitcoin’s pathway to hegemony comes from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a…
Turning the counter-revolutionaries. Road to Bitcoin Hegemony.
Turning the counter-revolutionaries Bitcoin abounds in sound bites from otherwise smart people lazily regurgitating inaccurate anecdotes. Take tulips, for example. Bitcoin’s dizzying rise to hegemony is, apparently, nothing more than a modern day version of the “original bubble” in 17th century Holland. The most astonishing…
To Kill The King. The Road to Bitcoin Hegemony.
To kill the King According to legend, the Greek goddess Hera tried to kill the baby Hercules by sending serpents into his cradle. But she was too late: the infant was already too strong, and simply strangled the snakes. There’s a lesson here…