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Read_545 - The Ultimate Guide to Inflation [Lyn Alden]
A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the nuances & the long history of inflation. What misconceptions do we still have about...
Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler]
"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company...
Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in...
Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right...
Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”,...
Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and...