Bitcoin - On the Origins of “HODLing” *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-on-the-origins-of-hodling The entirety of humanity’s history has been spent in a quest to improve lives and livelihoods through hard work and technological advancement. The vast majority of people over the millennia worked for years on end to provide for themselves and to build a better foundation for their children and subsequent descendants.…
Bitcoin and the Story of Antifragility #4 - Billions of Bitcoin *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-antifragility-billions-of-bitcoin *Something was wrong. Jeff was looking at a transaction that shouldn’t exist. In fact, based on everything he knew about Bitcoin, Jeff was looking at a transaction that COULDN’T exist. But there it was. Someone had managed to spend billions upon billions of bitcoin between wallets, even…
Blockchain and the Evolution of Information Systems Listen to this article *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/blockchain-evolution-of-information-systems From humanity’s earliest days, life has been primarily spent in the pursuit of increased knowledge. For thousands of years, that pursuit was largely driven by the needs of survival: the development of tools for transportation, food production, medicine, war, and so much more has helped ensure the…
NFTs - Beauty In The Eye Of The Behodler *Listen to this article* *as a podcast.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/nfts-beauty-in-the-eye-of-the-behodler The arrival of Bitcoin and Blockchain have been revolutionary for society at large. On the whole, we’re moving to a place in which we can successfully take back the power and control that oppressive governments and businesses have held over us for centuries. It’s no exaggeration to say that the world will be completely…
Decentralized In Name Only - Rise of the DINOs *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/decentralized-in-name-only-rise-dinos “Decentralization” is all the rage these days and will likely go down as the biggest buzzword of the decade, and with good reason: centralized systems have extracted massive amounts of data and value from societies, and when they go down, the world notices. Who can forget when most of the U.S. government was shut…
CBDCs and the New World Order of Taxation *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/cbdcs-new-world-order-of-taxation The concept of surveillance is certainly not one with which modern humanity is unfamiliar. We are bombarded almost weekly with stories of companies, government agencies, and other organizations whose systems were hacked or otherwise compromised, which led to the release of our personal information that we weren’t aware…
The Fatal Flaw of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/the-fatal-flaw-of-proof-of-stake Growth is fundamental to the long-term survival and development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchains. In simple terms, a cryptocurrency grows as more people use it. But even more important to the growth of a cryptocurrency is that the number of committed long-term users and hodlers continues to grow from cycle…
Bitcoin - Transaction Settlement on the World’s Blockchain *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-transaction-settlement-worlds-blockchain The digitization of our world is astounding. Over the past thirty years, communication, finance, education, governance, and more have increasingly shifted from physical to digital spaces. The internet has exploded as a result and the companies at the forefront of advancing humanity towards…
Bitcoin - A Destabilizing Force For Good *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-a-destabilizing-force-for-good It is a common belief in democracies around the world that politicians are meant to serve their country and their constituents with little thought for themselves, their livelihoods, or their own proclivities. Citizens in democracies are commonly enabled to elect some politicians after all. If you believe in someone’s…
Bitcoin vs. Fiat - Round 2 *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-vs-fiat-round-2 Our world is in the midst of an extreme crisis: a debt crisis that threatens to wreak havoc on economies and standards of living around the globe. It’s estimated that the global debt level of governments, households, and corporations is nearly $300 trillion USD. For context, that’s much higher than the roughly $100 trillion in annual GDP, meaning…
A DAO in the Life of the U.S. Constitution *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/dao-in-the-life-us-constitution The United States of America was originally founded upon the principles of democracy and self-governance. Its Founding Fathers believed first and foremost that citizens had a God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Maybe just as important though was their belief that people had the right to govern…
Bitcoin vs. Fiat - Round 1 *Listen to this article as a podcast.* The history of our world is full of financial crises. A review of various powerful governments from the past, such as the Roman and British empires, reveals that their downfalls had just as much to do with economic and financial chaos as with anything else. But it’s definitely not necessary to look even that far into the past. The 20th and 21st centuries have seen a host of economic downturns, so much so that…
CityCoin - Friend or Foe? *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/citycoin-friend-or-foe The cryptocurrency market went through a monumental bull market in 2017 and 2018, primarily as a result of massive growth on the part of the two largest cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. For Ethereum, it was a time where the utility of the blockchain was finally hitting its stride. As an example, many of the most well-known NFT projects, like…
Bitcoin Taproot - Years In The Making *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-taproot-years-in-the-making Our world is constantly changing. Technology improves and people and companies develop new ways to interact with one another. Much of the change is positive and has led to a significant increase in wealth and major advances in the standard of living for people around the world. But change just for the sake of change doesn’t…
Miner Difficulties - Earnings on the Bitcoin Blockchain *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/miner-difficulties-earnings-bitcoin-blockchain Bitcoin mining is, without a doubt, one of the most important parts of the Bitcoin network. After all, Bitcoin mining is what enables the proof of work algorithm that powers Bitcoin’s blockchain. And without proof of work, participants would be back to relying on trust-based systems, such as…
Bitcoin: Go With The Stock-to-Flow *Listen to this article* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-go-with-the-stock-to-flow The process of interpreting Bitcoin’s future price growth is, in many ways, enigmatic. People have tried and failed a lot over the years. Critics, of course, are the most representative group in this arena, having called Bitcoin worthless repeatedly while its price has skyrocketed instead. But even Bitcoin’s staunchest…
Bitcoin and the Story of Antifragility #3 - Mayhem on Mt. Gox *Listen to this article in* *as a podcast**.* https://thehificrypto.substack.com/p/bitcoin-antifragility-mayhem-mt-gox *Mark couldn’t believe it. He had been busy for sure, and his attention wasn’t always completely devoted to managing his cryptocurrency exchange. But still, he didn’t understand how so many Bitcoin could have just vanished from the exchange’s wallets. Had an employee stolen them? Had a hacker…
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Bitcoin and the Story of Antifragility #2: Silk Road *It was amazing to him to think how far he and his underground marketplace had come in just a few years. Originally started in order to allow people to buy anything completely anonymously, in two years the site had grown from a handful of users to over 100,000. It was more than he could have ever hoped for and the success was empowering. It was the perfect way to express his libertarian ideals. After all, he thought, what…
Too Big To Fail - A Story of Evergrande and Excess The year was 2008 and the world was in the midst of the worst financial crisis it had seen in decades. Stock prices swung wildly from day to day. Millions of people lost their homes and their jobs. And companies of all sizes were failing left and right. But none of them were as big as Lehman Brothers. Before filing for bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers was one of the largest investment banks in the U.S. and had several hundred…
Binance and the Labyrinth of Regulation Regulation is one of the biggest topics in cryptocurrency these days. Governments and regulators had for years ignored crypto and related industries. Perhaps they thought crypto would simply vanish into the ether as quickly it had come. But the ongoing bull market has turned Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from fringe assets into a multi-trillion dollar asset class. Regulators have chosen to no longer ignore crypto and this year has…
Walmart Accepts Litecoin….Or Not? Financial markets love big announcements. The stock market, as an example, rises and falls almost weekly as various government agencies announce fiscal policies and as large corporations announce earnings and forecasts. Cryptocurrency markets are just as susceptible to big announcements. Remember the twenty-plus percent gains seen within hours of Tesla making its large Bitcoin purchasepublicly known? The crypto space saw a similar event…
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