Author Archives: Grimeandreason

Crypto: the birth of economic secularism?

All hail my masterful photoshop skills.

  So it appears we just witnessed the 2008 bank bailout, but in characteristically rapid crypto-time. At least, that is what many of the more vocal twitter voices (oxymoron?) would have us believe. The Mintpal hack, the theft of 8 million Vericoins, and the subsequent hard-fork, or bailing out, could scarcely have come at a more crazy moment; just as ...

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When is a whale not a whale?

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I had originally intended to write this article with the aim of showing that ‘whale’ was an unfair term to use for all those that manipulate our cryptomarkets. Within minutes of researching, however, I realised that I was going to have to change my plans. Traditionally, people think of the term via it’s connotation with size, often exclusively - both ...

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