Tag: Bitcoin

  • The Cost of Love: Appraising The Twelve Days of Christmas

    How to get into the holiday spirit? Do some math! The Twelve Days of Christmas is a Christmas carol that lists out items that a (supposed) lover is purchasing for his love. The earliest version of the song appeared in a kid’s book titled, Mirth With-out Mischief in 1780. However, the version that we are most […]

  • Governance through Decentralization on the Blockchain

    Decentralization is an important part of the blockchain, and one of the reasons that a lot of investors are curious in the product. The way that the blockchain operates is on a peer to peer network, utilizing consensus mechanisms. There is no over-arching “person-in-charge” (on Bitcoin). On some of the other coins, such as Ethereum […]

  • Black Swans and the Federal Reserve: Is There Really a Difference?

    “The black swans are circling like vultures now. Dark economic events seem to be flying in out of nowhere for those who have vision to see them. Even dovish New York Fed President William Dudley says that he is less confident about the economy than he was when he and his Feddish partners voted to […]