Predicting Bitcoin’s failure
Bitcoin is doomed to fail, Edward Hadas writes in the New York Times today (A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail). He writes (emphasis is mine): the monetary philosophy behind this web-based...
View ArticleDetractors are in a mental rut because Bitcoin is stranger than fiction
When the late Iain Banks, one of science fiction’s most imaginative writers, has his character sitting in a futuristic bar in an intergalactic space station in Consider Phlebas, published in 1987,...
View ArticleHow to give bitcoins as a wedding anniversary present
Sif showing off the 0.1 bitcoins I generously gave her on our wedding anniversary. I’ve been impressing people with Bitcoin lately. Being the romantic that I am, I gave my wife 0.1 BTC as a wedding...
View ArticleWhen the incremental looks revolutionary
Surely that’s been done before. What’s so new about that? Yet another location-based social something or other? In startup land, where people constantly (and let’s face it: sometimes incessantly) tell...
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