• finpunk (64)in #zencash • 7 years ago

  Cryptocurrencies Are Creating Startup Nations

  One of the coolest aspects of the cryptocurrency revolution is that we're creating the equivalents of startup nations. This is the way I see societies evolving in the near…

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• finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago

  Bitcoin is Already Massively Successful

  Arguing that Bitcoin will never be successful seems to be the cool thing to do every time the market takes a dive. It’s tempting, especially for those whose minds can’t escape…

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• finpunk (64)in #blog • 7 years ago

  Launching ZenCash, Seasteading in Tahiti, and BIP-001 in Odessa

  It's been way too long since my last post, so this is going to be a bit of a whirlwind summary of a crazy summer! Three big things that've consumed my summer in a really good…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  Productivity, Growth, and Trade: A Little Freedom Goes A Long Way

  Economics really isn't all that complicated: We get wealthier by making more with less. OK, maybe you'll need to know a little more to pass a micro comprehensive exam, but never…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  Trade Restrictions Don't Make Sense: Importers And Exporters Are The Same People

  There's just way too much rhetoric out of the last election against free trade that needs to stop. Tariffs and other trade restrictions will not make America great ...it will…

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• finpunk (64)in #steem • 8 years ago

  Taking Money Off The Table But Keeping It In Crypto

  There comes a time in every crypto bull market when you count up your gains, glance at the double digit percentages displayed in green on coinmarketcap, and something in your gut…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  The Dark Side Of Enforcing Property Rights In Another Country

  Property rights are the cornerstone of a healthy economy and critical to individual freedom. Without property rights there is little reason to invest in productivity, and so it's…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  Economic Growth Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

  There's all too much popular misconception that economic growth is "unsustainable" akin to a Ponzi scheme. This may be true for some types of growth, but certainly not from the…

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• finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago

  Bitcoin Is The Ultimate Currency Hedge For Volatile Economies

  Bitcoin is proving to be the ultimate currency hedge for those stuck in volatile economies. Vinny Lingham, CEO of identity startup Civic, explains Bitcoin's 2016 price surge in…

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• finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago

  How Bitcoin Can Help Countries Like Nicaragua

  Nicaragua is a beautiful country with a lively culture, great food, incredible coffee, and some of the best cigars in the world. Despite once being one of the richest countries…

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• finpunk (64)in #travel • 8 years ago

  @finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 4): Laguna de Apoyo, Flor de Caña, and Christmas Fun

  The last part of my trip to Nicaragua was simply amazing, and included a relaxing day on Laguna de Apoyo, a personal tour of Flor de Caña's distillery, steaks perfectly barbecued…

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• finpunk (64)in #travel • 8 years ago

  @finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 3): Estamos Pobre?

  Learning another language is difficult! We take for granted the everyday slang, conjugations, and colloquialisms we use all the time, but when you're trying to speak a different…

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• finpunk (64)in #travel • 8 years ago

  @finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 2): Groceries, Donkeys, and Card Counting

  The last four days in Nicaragua have been a ton of fun and a wonderful learning experience. There are few better ways to learn about the world than to get out into it!  @finpunk…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  What a Squirrel Bridge to Nowhere Can Teach Us About Public Finance

  The mayor of The Hague insists that a £120,000 "squirrel bridge" built in 2012 to help the cute little critters safely cross a busy motorway was not a waste of money, despite…

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• finpunk (64)in #travel • 8 years ago

  @finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 1)

  Yours truly is en route to Nicaragua as I write this. My wife and I head there at least once a year to visit her family and enjoy the beautiful country next to its better-known…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  Economics is “horrendously misguided” and obsessed with “completely unimportant things”

  Jeffrey Sachs is one of the most respected growth economists in the world, a large part of that because so much of his work has been outside the Ivory Tower helping real people.…

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• finpunk (64)in #ethereum • 8 years ago

  Ethereum Classic Gets More Interesting: More Developers and a New Monetary Policy

  Ethereum Classic (ETC) was one of the first major revolts of a successful cryptocurrency community, the point of contention being the hard fork bailout of The DAO. The core…

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• finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago

  A New Type of Hedge Fund Using Artificial Intelligence, Encryption, Crowdsourcing, and Bitcoin

  Finance just gets more interesting by the day! Wired grabbed my attention this morning with "7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain." The article talks…

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• finpunk (64)in #food • 8 years ago

  Predicting A New Consumer Revolution: The Plant-Based Diet

  In "Moving Towards a Plant-Based Diet" I announced that my wife and I were embarking on a 75% vegetarian diet, pushing meat down to about 25% of our meals. Earlier this morning…

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• finpunk (64)in #economics • 8 years ago

  Stossel: Life is Fairer When People Are Free to Make Their Own Decisions

  It's interesting that people need to be convinced that freedom is a decent concept. There's all too often a "but" tagged to the end of any statement about freedom being a good…

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