BlogHide Resteemsgiarcmlas (25)in bitcoin • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.All the Reasons Bitcoin Could Someday Replace Gold as a Financial Hedge ((A response to Forbes’ “All the Reasons Cryptocurrencies Will Never Replace Gold As Your Financial Hedge”)In late October, Olivier Garret, a Forbes contributor, put out the piece All the Reasons Cryptocurrencies Will Never Replace Gold As Your Financial Hedge.Below I detail the six proposed reasons and…giarcmlas (25)in bitcoin • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.What Makes a Well-Designed Cryptoeconomic Protocol?TL; DR Naval Ravikant proposes the following three criteria for a well-designed cryptoeconomic protocol: (1) the resource that the protocol is aggregating and allocating is provided by the network…giarcmlas (25)in bitcoin • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Cryptoasset Foundational FundamentalsThe most popular book right now in the cryptoasset investing space is Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar. It’s a great read for…giarcmlas (25)in bitcoin • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.A Few Quick Thoughts on the Bitcoin Scaling Debate in the Context of Calling off SegWit2xI put the below thoughts into an email to some friends earlier this month but wanted to get something more polished onto Medium. Here you go: On November 8, 2017 the planned Bitcoin hardfork known…giarcmlas (25)in blockchain • 7 years agoThe SAFT Whitepaper: What Makes a Token “Genuinely Useful”?TL;DR Protocol Labs, Inc., the creator of the Filecoin network, and their counsel, Cooley LLP, recently released a framework for conducting compliant token sales using a Simple Agreement for Future…