Blog/Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin = Money, Commodity, or Shares?
QUESTION: I read your article on Bitcoin. I found it fascinating that defining what it is changes everything. You did not actually say what you thought it was, [...]
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The Practicality of Cryptocurrencies – Not Really Ready for Prime Time
Trying to actually use Bitcoin in the economy is anything but something that will replace any government currency. The transaction fees are outrageous typically 3 [...]
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Bitcoin To Be or Not to Be?
QUESTION: Hi Martin, Despite the Bitcoin fanboys arguing that Bitcoin is untouchable by governments, would you agree that once governments, in particular, the [...]
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Bitcoin Phase Transition or Plateau Move?
Hackers have managed to get $70 million worth of Bitcoin, revealing the risk of all electronic forms of money to which cryptocurrencies are not exempt. The prices [...]
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Bitcoin to be Declared a Financial Institution — Beware!
The risk with Bitcoin is that the government could simply change the definition of money. That is what they did to me back in 1980 because I was one of the three [...]
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Is Cryptocurrency a Government Plot?
QUESTION: You have said that the future will be cryptocurrencies. The Bank of Canada has come out and acknowledged what you have been saying that such [...]
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Ethereum Cryptocurrency – Almost $400 Million Vanishes
Thanks to a string of screw-ups and bugs, an unsuspecting developer recently took possession of an estimated $US390 million worth of the Ethereum cryptocurrency by [...]
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