https://ryanaferguson.com/2018/06/asics-cost-51-attacks/ People fear ASICs for centralizing mining and making a cryptocurrency more valuable attack. These concerns ignore the economic incentives to …
ASICs and The Cost of 51% Attacks
In the cryptocurrency world, lot's of people are against the development of ASIC miners because of the fear that they centralize mining and put cryptocurrencies at a greater risk of a 51% or other …
Hard Forks and the Turkey Problem
One of the arguments that I've seen recently against Bitcoin Cash is that accepting hard forks (like increasing the block size) trivializes hard forks and major changes to the code which makes it more …
The BTC Troll Army & BCH As an Investment
Right now there is no cryptocurrency project that faces as much negative attention as Bitcoin Cash. Everytime someone posts about it on Twitter or Reddit, a legion of "users" flood the comments …
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Network Effect, Language, and Bitcoin
Adoption is an important part of the value of a cryptocurrency. Even if a coin isn't technically the best, if it has widespread adoption, it will be more valuable than a technically better, but less …
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The Institutional Money Crypto Flood
At some point in the near future, mutual funds, retirement plans, pension funds, and HNWI capital will flood into the crypto market. A small amount of this started in the fall of 2017 when crypto …
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