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Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits
Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits Four months ago, in a not entirely surprising move meant to circumvent US economic sanctions on Venezuela, president Nicolas Maduro announced that his nation would stop accepting dollars as payment for oil imports, followed just days later by the announcement that in […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
66% of the Economy is Already Electronic & 99% of Money is Electronic
66% of the Economy is Already Electronic & 99% of Money is Electronic QUESTION: I loved your mention of how our money is not “printed”. You are THE ONLY financial expert to mention this. And you can’t understand our economy without understanding Electronic Money. I researched this 3 or four years ago and came up […]
Big Banks Are All Over Blockchain
Big Banks Are All Over Blockchain To process derivatives, currency trades, transactions, etc. Just don’t call it cryptocurrency. It’s a “digital currency.” As a general rule, most bankers disparage cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, as anything but purely speculative instruments. But they don’t disparage blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies. On the contrary. They’re pouring money into […]
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash The EU is now developing strict rules for carrying cash when traveling to non-European countries and returning to Europe. The revision of the First Cash Control Regulation from 2005, which stipulated that EU citizens should register cash in excess of € 10,000 when leaving the EU or when returning […]
Could Central Banks Dump Gold in Favor of Bitcoin?
Could Central Banks Dump Gold in Favor of Bitcoin? All of which brings us to the “crazy” idea of backing fiat currencies with cryptocurrencies, an idea I first floated back in 2013, long before the current crypto-craze emerged. Exhibit One: here’s your typical central bank, creating trillions of units of currency every year, backed by […]
The Virtual Economy Is The End Of Freedom
The Virtual Economy Is The End Of Freedom There is one simple rule to follow when understanding the tragic history of economies: Never put blind faith in a system built on an establishment-created foundation. You would think this would not be a difficult concept to grasp being that we have so many examples of controlled […]
A Gold Guys View of Crypto, Bitcoin, and Blockchain
A Gold Guys View of Crypto, Bitcoin, and Blockchain Bitcoin was on my radar far back as 2011, but for years, I didn’t think much of it. It was a curiosity. Nothing more. Sort of like the virtual money you use in World of Warcraft or something. In 2015, looking deeper, I slowly (not the […]
If You Don’t Own Any Bitcoin, Read This
If You Don’t Own Any Bitcoin, Read This This week it hit $19,000. What’s next? Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000). And that’s after a mind-blowing […]
What Is Money? (Yes, We’re Talking About Bitcoin)
What Is Money? (Yes, We’re Talking About Bitcoin) Good ideas don’t require force. That describes the Internet, mobile telephony and cryptocurrencies. What is money? We all assume we know, because money is a commonplace feature of everyday life. Money is what we earn and exchange for goods and services. Everyone thinks the money they’re familiar […]
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 2 (Bitcoin)
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 2 (Bitcoin) The financial crisis of 2008/09 was the most significant event to happen in my lifetime. That episode, coupled with the deeply unethical and corrupt response to it, led to a direct delegitimization of governments and institutions worldwide. It’s precisely this self-inflicted destruction […]
Is Cryptocurrency a Government Plot?
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 private issue challenges the government’s profit structure. Do you think electronic money will be viable sooner or later down the road? PG ANSWER: Electronic currency is […]
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed”
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed” Bitcoin is backed by the use value of the distributed ledger in the underlying technology of the Blockchain. Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Vice Chair for bank supervision, has given a lengthy speech (“Thoughts on Prudent Innovation in […]
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop? Regardless of one’s own views about bitcoin/cryptocurrency, what is truly remarkable is the asymmetry that is applied to questioning the status quo and bitcoin. As I noted yesterday, everyone seems just fine […]
