Bitcoin in the Twenty-First Century: What Piketty can Learn From the Blockchain
So far in 2014, the biggest news in popular economics has been Thomas Piketty and his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It has struck a nerve with a worldwide populous that is still reeling in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, with some estimates putting sales of the book at over 200,000 in just a few months. This is remarkable for a 600+....
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Bitcoin value is up over 200% from this time last year. How's the dollar doing? Today I will extend to you three key reasons why the Bitcoin value versus the "Almighty Dollar" is of little significance, and may be totally irrelevant both now, and in the future. One reason can be from distilled from lessons learned in our history of decentralized networks versus other centralized networks. One can be realized through the present day landscape, and one looks into the future of money as we know it. So let's begin with our ability to learn from history. Twenty years ago, when the Internet was....
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