18 December 2024

Tag: Bitcoin

Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend

Usually trying to be all things for all people is a bad business strategy. Mostly it stretches your operation too thin. You might be really good at one or two things, and only so-so on others, but if you spread out to include all the operations you can manage, you can usually expect mediocrity across…

5 April 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Central Bank Digital Currency and the death of privacy

President Joe Biden sent out an executive order to his people to learn all they could about crypto and determine if it was a threat to national security, and the news flew under the radar when they finally came back. It wasn’t anything anyone in the crypto space wasn’t expecting already—regulations required at all levels…

24 March 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Fringe, The Weird, and the WTF

Normally we cover the top 100 crypto by market cap on Perplexed, but today we’re covering four strange and disparate cryptocurrencies, ranging from the peculiar but theoretically useful Augur to the downright weird Cthulhu Offerings. Why? Because there’s some weird shit out there and you should probably know about it—especially if you’re going to look…

11 March 2022
Will Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) and DeFi levy the challenge to traditional finance?

One of the biggest unforeseeable events of the past twenty years has been the disintermediation effect of new tech. Netflix killed blockbuster, Amazon has slain Sears and other big box chains of the past, and services like Uber and Lyft are disrupting the traditional taxi services. Technology has been busy slaughtering the sacred cows of…

23 February 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case Against Privacy Pt 2

Late last week I wrote a little something on privacy and why we need it. That was intended to be a much larger piece—the second half of which would show the other side, lay out the counterarguments from both the perspective of cryptocurrency, but also veer into wider privacy related territory. Especially in view of…

4 February 2022
The DeFi Mini-Roundup You Didn’t Know You Needed Till Now

For most people decentralized finance (DeFi) is a mystifying concept. The world of finance itself is full of strange definitions and shenanigans, but it’s been around long enough that the entire sphere of financial life is taken for granted. It’s always been there and it’s always going to be there. It’s the world of Warren…

31 January 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case for Privacy Part 1.

Earlier this week the Biden administration took aim at cryptocurrency by announcing they’re preparing an executive order for release early next month outlining the U.S. government strategy on cryptocurrency. Here’s a handy bullet point list: The directive would place the White House in a central role overseeing efforts to set policies and regulate digital assets,…

29 January 2022
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Litecoin

Litecoin is one of the original cryptocurrencies. We could call it a First Generation cryptocurrency alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, XRP and if you want to stretch it some, maybe Dash and Bitcoin Cash. It’s been around since 2011 when Bitcoin mining was mostly done from your mother’s basement on a series of networked computers, each…

27 January 2022
Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today

Tomorrow’s markets are going to be easier to navigate, or so we’re told by anyone close to decentralized finance (DeFi). The essential promise of DeFi is that it could lead to an altogether more efficient, more democratic form of finance. It promises a system that’s cheaper, faster, more transparent and less prone to manipulation by…

4 January 2022
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition

If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…

27 December 2021