on the blockchain

Untraceable Bitcoin is a myth.

Last week’s link mused on exactly how the government recovered some of the Colonial Pipeline ransom. This week, Ezra Galston from Starting Line added additional perspective in the WSJ. “Bitcoin is anonymous, but it’s far from private—an important but often overlooked distinction. […]

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No more starving artists

Digitally native art, including NFTs, is off the ground yet lacks a lot of basic infrastructure. From Jackie DiMonte: “Over the last year, we have seen an online auction break in-person auction records. Months later, we saw an NFT auction […]

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Bitcoin is not an inflation hedge

This critical analysis of a common belief among Bitcoin supporters has merit. “The inflation-hedge viewpoint is an article of faith in the crypto community. The logic goes that bitcoin will become the asset of last resort when inflation finally makes […]

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A death in Cryptoland

“When reports emerged in 2019 that the CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange had died, it left over a quarter of a billion dollars of customers’ funds in limbo. While authorities investigated, one online sleuth decided to dig deeper to […]