The Weekend Read: June 4
Go on now Bitcoin, git! 1. Needing a token to operate a distributed ledger is a red herring by Tim Swanson One question that comes up in almost every conversation we have with financial markets folks...
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Happy Fathers Day! 1. Santander Innoventures Fintech 2.0 Paper: Rebooting Financial Services Very well done high level summary of the opportunities in re-engineering financial services, with an...
View ArticleThe July 4th Weekend Read
As us Seppos get ready for America’s birthday, the bitcoin crowd continues its Grexit ambulance chasing… 1. Blockchain on Wall St FT article: Banks and exchanges turn to blockchain (with the oddly...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 10
Cognitive Dissonance on bitcoin.org 1. Blockchain on Wall Street (cont.) BNP’s Quintessence magazine has a very nice overview of the potential for blockchains. I was nodding my head vigorously at the...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 17
1. Blockchain Explainer (for financial markets) by the FT Philip Stafford does an excellent job, both in print and video, in explaining why banks have “a keen interest in applying the blockchain…to...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 24
Count me among the ‘many': Many will find this crazy, but I think bitcoin could surpass the dollar as reserve currency within 10-15 years. — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) July 24, 2015 1. Gimme a...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: August 15
[Ed. Note: I will be on hiatus for the last two weekends of summer. We will resume our (ir)regularly scheduled programming on Sep 4th] 1. Are we about to enter a Bitcoin Winter? Or is it Springtime for...
View ArticleSimple Rules and SPX
I came across this article from Bloomberg earlier this week, which featured the research of Mebane Faber into how simple market timing rules could provide lower risk exposure and better returns for SPX...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: Back to School Edition
Summer is (un-officially) over and the Bitcoin livin’ aint easy 1. Bitcoin Nerd Fight Update Since our last posting, lots of e-ink has been spilled and reddit sock puppets besmirched over the Great...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: Sep 13
Even The Donald has an opinion on the block size debate 1. Permissioned validators and permissionless innovation IB Times featured an interview with Smart Contract godfather (and oft-cited Satoshi...
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