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What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time?
What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time? It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this hyper-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market. […]
A Modest Plan
A Modest Plan Rembrandt van Rijn The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 On March 18, 1990, the painting was stolen by thieves disguised as police officers. They broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, MA, and stole this painting, along with 12 other works. The paintings have never been recovered, and […]
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 […]
US Military Rushes To Study Blockchain As ‘Hybrid Wars’ Loom
US Military Rushes To Study Blockchain As ‘Hybrid Wars’ Loom President Trump signed into law the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday, a $700 billion defense policy bill that mandatesfor a “briefing on cyber applications of blockchain technology.” Language within the bill is part of a much wider effort to modernize the United States military, before decades […]
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies The Seven Social Sins of the World: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle — given by Mohandas Gandhi to his grandson Arun shortly before his assassination BITCOIN AND BLOCKCHAIN The world is on fire lately […]
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 […]
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 5
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 5 Gustave Courbet Sunset on Lake Geneva 1876Chapter 1 of this five-part series by Dr. D is here: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 1 Chapter 2 is here: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 2 Chapter 3 is here: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 3 Chapter 4 is here: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 4 Next […]
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 1
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 1 Gustave Courbet The wave 1869A while ago, I asked a regular commenter at the Automatic Earth, who goes by the moniker Dr. D, to try and write an article for us. Not long after, I received no less than 31 pages, and an even 12345 words. Way too long for […]
China and Russia: Full Steam Ahead Towards a Cashless Society
China and Russia: Full Steam Ahead Towards a Cashless Society We reported back in November 2016 – Cashless World: 1 out of 3 People Never Use Cash – fewer and fewer people understand the importance of using cash to protect themselves from an overarching government warlord. At the time China’s use of digitized currency was growing […]
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies Interest in Bitcoin is red hot at the moment. It’s impossible to open a website, listen to a podcast, or watch a video in the financial space without hearing about the meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin. Maybe you know a “Bitcoin millionaire” who bought five hundred […]
Salt, Wampum, Benjamins – Is Bitcoin Next
Salt, Wampum, Benjamins – Is Bitcoin Next Currency was first developed about 4000 years ago. Its genius was in the ability to supplant barter thus greatly improving trade and providing a better means for storing value. As illustrated in our title, currency has taken on many different physical forms through the years. Given the recent […]
The Future of Money
The Future of Money The cartels and state organs are frantically trying to co-op, outlaw, corral or control this disruptive technology. To say that the future of money is blockchain-based crypto-currencies and payment platforms is to state the obvious nowadays. If this wasn’t the case, then why are Goldman Sachs et al. (i.e. the global too […]
