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Modern Monetary Theory and Blockchain Economies

This was meant to be a casual comment on Economist Chuanwei (David) Zou’s recent article “Cryptocurrency – From the View of Modern Monetary Theory“, but it exceeded Linkedin’s maximum character limit for a comment (a strange limitation to say the least), hence a separate article. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an interesting tool for analyzing blockchain economies. David’s arguments that money is not only inherently but also historically related to credit and debt (versus the… Read More »Modern Monetary Theory and Blockchain Economies

Bitcoin, Chaos and Order

“Craig Wright interview Bitcoin, Chaos and Order in Religion” is a very interesting interview. CSW is more of a theologian than a man of faith (or if he is, he isn’t revealing it). At least as far as Bitcoin and CSW’s public opinions are concerned, he is not relating the topic to eternity, but only to the present world in practical terms, despite the fact that the particular interview is meant to cover religion. For… Read More »Bitcoin, Chaos and Order

The Idea of “Digital Gold” — BTC’s Value Fundamentals

The idea of “digital gold” is probably the most creative idea that has ever come from Bitcoin Core (BTC), a distorted and neutered version of the original Bitcoin (see, BTC and Bitcoin, what is the real difference?).

First, the idea of “gold” has provided a very powerful and convenient attachment point for people who do not understand technology and economics. It is powerful because the analogy has a lot of truth in it.

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

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BTC and Bitcoin, what is the real difference?

Although BTC is commonly taken as the synonym of Bitcoin at the present time, it is in reality drastically different from Bitcoin created by Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudo name, whose real identity I believe is Dr. Craig S. Wright) according to the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), on the other hand, has remained true to Bitcoin.

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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A lesson from dot-com era for crypto investors

The dot-com boom and bust From June 1997 to January 2000, within two and half years, Amazon stock had a 70x run, i.e., 7000% (you think the present stock market bull run is dazzling?). From January 2000 to October 2001, during the dot-com crash, in a bit over one and a half years, Amazon stock dropped by more than 90% (but still 3.5 times higher than the 1997 IPO price). From October 2001 to now… Read More »A lesson from dot-com era for crypto investors

A Future with BTC and BSV

Bitcoin Core (BTC) insists on small blocks in order to “be separate from the government.” To their credit, separation from the mainstream may just be its fate. BTC may not totally disappear, but instead may end up a niche. Imagine: Today: The global black money market is at $0.8 trillion; gold $8 trillion; global GDP...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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Craig S. Wright’s copyright claim is a good “handicap signal”

In the news: Craig Wright is enforcing copyright claim on the Bitcoin whitepaper Lawyers for Wright sent out copyright infringement notices to five parties currently hosting the Bitcoin white paper on their websites. These parties control and operate the websites bitcoin.org, bitcoin.com and bitcoincore.org. This is NOT about copyright, but Wright’s way to put truth/lie under a test. It is also a signal based on the “handicap principle”. And it is an interesting signal. On… Read More »Craig S. Wright’s copyright claim is a good “handicap signal”

Tokens and Securities: Issuance and Distribution

In a public statement in the Matter of Wireline, Inc., SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce makes an excellent point in her Concurrence by cautioning that Commission and courts have made the mistake of “treating the pre-sale and public distribution of tokens as one event.”  In fact, it is better to focus on the distinction between issuance and distribution instead of pre-sale and public distribution. Pre-sale is private distribution. Distribution therefore conceptually includes both “pre-sale” (private… Read More »Tokens and Securities: Issuance and Distribution

Decentralized AI on Blockchain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs to be decentralized and personalized, and to do that, you need blockchain. What’s wrong with AI without blockchain? Let’s look at a well-known example of AI. Google’s centralized AI is powerful but also dumb at the same time. Powerful because it has pushed machine learning based on generic mass data to...

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Introduction
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Is Bitcoin (BTC) a Ponzi Scheme?

At the present time, Bitcoin Core (BTC) is very much like a Ponzi scheme, because the exodus of existing investors is only prevented by a hope that the price will go up, which in turn is sustained by the new money of new investors (who happen to be misinformed and allured in by a wrong...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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