Bitcoin block limit - trade-offs and outcomes

The discussion on the Bitcoin block limit is nothing new. A number of people have weighted in on this subject, myself included almost two ye...

Money as a motivator

Over the years people used a lot of different things as a currency - gold, cowry shells, beads, livestock, or even some large rocks. Some pe...

Ripple as middleware

As many people may know, the current banking system is a mess when you're dealing in multiple currencies. We have disjointed networks de...

The need for a new measurement of value

As many of you might be familiar, there are a few key functions money needs to perform in our society. While the exact list may vary, here ...

Crypto success vs. Bitcoin success

After researching a lot of Crypto 2.0 systems ( tiny.cc/Crypto ), I started thinking about whether some systems could surpass Bitcoin. We h...

How to kill a currency

A lot of people have spelled Bitcoin's doom in the past. From a 51% attack to some other vulnerabilities, a lot of technical pitfalls ar...

Convenient bugs and arbitrary features

As with any software out there, Bitcoin and related cryptocurrency systems occasionally get bugs and change some features of the network. Th...