Let us first agree I plan to refer to it as Halving… other blogs have been written to cover this topic, so I won’t go there. The number of bitcoins (BTC) entering circulation every 10 minutes (known as block rewards) will drop … Continue reading Bitcoin – The Halving, what does it all mean?

If you have spent any time down the rabbit hole of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin over the last couple of years and had the pleasure of listening to a Bitcoin commentator with a macroeconomics bent, talk about how Bitcoin is impacting … Continue reading QE and its relationship to Bitcoin

Many commentators on Crypto Twitter say “get off zero and invest in Bitcoin!” – But why?  In this blog, I plan to outline in layman’s terms why I believe you should invest in Bitcoin. But first the disclaimer: I am … Continue reading Get off zero – The case for why to invest in Bitcoin

This blog post is going to cover the similarities between Gold and Bitcoin as a store of value and how thinking about Bitcoin as digital gold is, in my opinion, a solid way to think about Bitcoin. History of Gold … Continue reading Bitcoin and Gold

This week Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the House Financial Services to supposedly talk about Libra the proposed cryptocurrency and digital payments technology Facebook is proposing.  The fact that only a small handful of the congressmen and women actually … Continue reading Permission Vs Permissionless Blockchain Explained

As Mark Zuckberg, the CEO and Founder of Facebook testifies before Congress today I thought it was a good time to break down what is Libra and cut through the partisan hype and give a layman’s view of why you … Continue reading What is Libra and why should you care?

1% of the population of the world owns Bitcoin according to numbers I have recently seen.  Flip that around and 99% of the world doesn’t own Bitcoin.  Worse, everyone has Fiat currency in their wallet or bank account, and they have understood … Continue reading How to explain Bitcoin to your friend who thinks you are insane…

In this 3rd installment, we will get into what a Bitcoin is, at a technical level, so we can build up a more detailed understanding of how the technology actually works. This post will cover all the major components of how … Continue reading What is Bitcoin – Part 3

In this article, I will describe what it means to tokenize an asset on a Blockchain and how it relates to physical assets and other financial instruments. Imagine the scenario is that you want to invest in real estate, but … Continue reading Tokenization of Assets

In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I tried to define what Bitcoin is by explaining it as a crypto currency.  This leads us onto a fundamental question – is Bitcoin digital money at all?  To understand more about this, let’s … Continue reading What is Bitcoin? Part 2