Bitcoin: A Hedge Against The Dystopian Present
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, when asked about the potential of Bitcoin, Kenneth Rogoff, an economist and Harvard faculty member, conceded that the cryptocurrency has a future…. but only if the future is “dystopian” in nature. But what if the dystopian future is already here? Without wishing to engage in linguistic inflation, let us start off by defining the term “dystopia.” A dystopia is simply “a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.” One needn’t be living in a Mad Max nightmare to find modern day existence both undesirable and frightening. Unlike utopias,....
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When it comes to bitcoin and AI, it is impossible to tell what the future will hold. A new breed of hedge funds is coming to Wall Street and other financial areas all over the world. Two new technologies are becoming the next area of focus: artificial intelligence and bitcoin. One interesting example is called Numerai, a hedge fund trading through machine learning models built by scientists paid in bitcoin. It is evident there is a growing demand to access the bitcoin ecosystem without having to buy cryptocurrency directly. On paper, it is not easy to grasp the concept of a bitcoin or AI....
Bitcoin’s status as an inflation hedge has come under scrutiny in the current market, but experts point toward the exceptional market conditions. Bitcoin has been projected as many things since its inception in 2009. However, the most talked about aspects have been a fungible form of future money and an inflation hedge.The last Bitcoin (BTC) halving cycle (a block reward halving event that happens approximately every four years) coincided with the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which solidified many people’s belief in the nascent tech as a true hedge against inflation and worldly disorders. One....
No longer is bitcoin for the enthusiast, it would seem. With increasing popularity, businesses - and now financial institutions - are looking to get their hands into the pot. Case in point: A San Francisco-based hedge fund is seeking to bring aboard what they call a "Junior Bitcoin Execution Trader", according to a job posting by Glocap that was emailed to a list of subscribers. The hedge fund's (unclear just which one) "seeking a junior trader to assist with bitcoin execution, general fund operations, and reporting." We've seen interest in bitcoin from hedge funds before, but this is the....
Centrally managed currencies are similar to Ponzi schemes, and require increasingly dystopian measures to stay afloat.
Brevan Howard, a European hedge fund management company, has said it will be expanding its crypto business. BH Digital, which is the hedge fund’s recently created unit, is expected to “manage its cryptocurrency and digital assets.” Growing Interest in Crypto From Hedge Funds In addition to creating BH Digital, Brevan Howard, according to a Reuters report, has also said it will be hiring Colleen Sullivan, the current CEO of the digital arm of trading firm CMT, to lead private and venture investments in crypto. The announcement by Brevan Howard, which is reputed....