Jeffrey Tucker Attacks Pop Austrian Economics at Bitcoin Event
This is a guest post by Andrew Criscione who co-organizes the Mises Group in Boston, Ma. He hosted Jeffrey Tucker for a dinner with the Mises Group members and shared the experience. The Boston Austrian Economics Group held the event "Bitcoin and Bowties" featuring Jeffrey Tucker, CEO of Liberty.me and publisher of Laissez Faire Books. Tucker is an....
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Jeffrey Tucker, via Wikimedia Commons. It is no secret that the cryptocurrency industry is fraught with scams. Some of the more high-profile bitcoin scams-such as Mt. Gox-receive mainstream press coverage and reinforce the misguided stereotype that criminals are bitcoin's primary user group. Many in the Bitcoin community are understandably worried by this. However, Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker sees a silver lining Tucker says the proliferation of bitcoin scams is actually a "bullish sign" for the bitcoin industry because scams tend to coalesce around budding industries with explosive....
For those looking to fulfill their Bitcoin fix next week, Bitcoin Center NYC has it covered. Kicking off the week on Monday, February 17th, Bitcoin Center NYC will hold a special trading event, with special guest and Bitcoin evangelist, Jeffrey Tucker. Following the event on Monday evening, Bitcoin Center NYC will host a debate between Andrew Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital and Jeffrey Tucker, which takes place on Tuesday - just 100 feet from the NYSE. Bitcoin Center NYC is the city's only brick-and-mortar institution dedicated to further the adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency....
Jeffrey Tucker is an economist who’s also savvy with blockchains (a rare combination). He is responsible for introducing Bitcoin to many of his readers via his authorship of four books and founding of the Cryptocurrency Conference. Tucker is a distinguished fellow for the Foundation for Economic Education and is the Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me. He talked with CoinTelegraph about the European Central Bank’s warnings about deflation, the future of fractional-reserve banking, and the role of peer-to-peer solutions. “You can do very good business under deflationary conditions.”
Libertarian leader Jeffrey Tucker, CEO of Liberty.me and publisher of Laissez Faire Books, shared with Bitcoin Magazine his views on how Bitcoin is NOT a monetary system. Bitcoin Is Not a Monetary System. By Jeffrey Tucker. Every since I started writing about cryptocurrency last Spring, my inbox has become a hub for Bitcoin questions. I completely understand - even to me it's still the most implausible idea ever that some code-slinging, nameless geek somewhere could somehow invent a new currency made from 1s and 0s, throw it out there on an open forum, and (in a mere five years), it would....
Bitcoin evangelist Jeffrey Tucker was not always a believer. The highly-trained economist, hailing from fellowships at the Mises Institute and the Acton Institute, initially struggled with how a non-tangible item could possibly qualify as money, much less “sound money.” But Bitcoin’s persistence as a medium of exchange kept Tucker on a fiery path of....