How 2020 set the stage for the 2021 bitcoin bubble
Act I, Scene I: Pandemic Panic.
Tag: bitcoin
Bitcoin drops below $20,000, Ether cracks $1,000 — what this means
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
Celsius goes Fahrenheit 451, and number goes down
We can confirm that we are in fact having a whale of a time staying poor. Few.
The prehistory of NFTs
This is a draft of part one of the history chapter for our planned NFT book. Corrections and nitpicking are most welcomed!
Your guide to the crypto crash — Terra UST, Bitcoin and El Salvador
Is this THE END OF CRYPTO?? We should be so lucky.
The Central African Republic adopted Bitcoin last week — full text of the law
The one question is: why?
El Salvador: Bukele goes full dictator, Chivo theft, Bitcoin Towers
Bitcoin is not the biggest problem in El Salvador right now — it’s Bukele using the gangs to go as full dictator as he thinks he can get away with.
Don’t take me down to Bitcoin City: El Salvador Volcano Bonds delayed
Zelaya blames the war in Ukraine. Did all those buyers disappear? Surely they weren’t all freshly-sanctioned entities.
El Salvador Bitcoin: Tether buys itself a country; and why Chivo sucks
El Salvador adopting Bitcoin wasn’t the particular Tether scam I originally thought — but it’s turning out to be a different, and bigger, one.
Cryptocurrency, blockchains and markets — Queen’s University Belfast, Tuesday 22 February 2022
I did a talk for William Quinn’s final year fintech class at Queen’s University Belfast. 1 hour talk, 1 hour questions.