This is a marker page to hold all our bitcoin blog posts. Follow on twitter at @polemitis.
Part 1: Background and some fallacies that repeat in the media.
1. Bitcoin is a major technical achievement
2. Decentralization is the key characteristic of bitcoin
3. Bitcoin would be a terrible national currency (and why that doesn’t matter)
4. Is bitcoin a currency or an asset?
5. What are the elements of valuing bitcoin?
6. Intrinsic value - It is not that simple
7. How is bitcoin a store of value?
8. Who is investing in bitcoin today?
9. Five reasons bitcoin is currently volatile and why it does not matter
10. Why the $7M pizza does not matter (aka how to transact in bitcoin)
Part 2 and beyond will deal with future and potential applications of bitcoin and will be more open in approach.
11. Digital currency will be a winner-take-all game
12. Sideshow: Krugman and bitcoin
13. Only the Fed can make a Dollarcoin
14. Our robot overlords will use bitcoin
15. The discontinuity that is bitcoin (aka the day bitcoin moved my cheese)
16. So you want a bitcoin, eh? (with really pathetic PPT graphics)
17. Bitcoin loves our freedoms
18. Why bitcoin miners aren't incented to 51% attack
19. Bizarre shadowy paper-based payments system to be rolled out worldwide (or how cash would be described in the press if invented today)
20. The Full-Proof Press Release Kit for [Your Country]
21. Retirement Plan and IRA Investment in Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies
22. Bitcoin valuation for dummies
24. The Mega-Master Blockchain List
25. IRS Tax Guidance - Transacting With Commodity Money
26. The 'Polemitis Impossible Trinity'
27. Bitcoin - A 6-Sided Market and Network Effect
28. Sidechains
30. Hashing Power and Difficulty
31. Cost of a 51% attack against Bitcoin vs. a traditional ledger
32. I rented a NYC apartment with Bitcoin and I liked it
34. Oracles, Oracles, Oracles and Oracles again
35. How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Hashing Rates
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