Crypto as an escape route from currency madness
One concept cryptocurrency advocates use to bolster their case for the alternative currencies is how they allow people to work around government meddling. That meddling can take many forms. But…
Cryptocurrency as a tool for defending liberty
With the Federal Reserve bracing itself, and to an extent, capital markets, for a belated assault on inflation, more eyes and interest are turning toward cryptocurrencies as a means to…
Let currency competition flourish
As governments like India move toward banning private crypto currencies, believing they pose a threat to state control, there is a strong case to allow cryptocurrencies to flourish alongside fiat…
Crypto v. Gaia
It’s a given that governments dislike things that challenge their authority. Cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin in particular, is a case in point. One of the charges thrown at crypto’s feet –…
October inflation data shows prices reaching 30 year highs
Inflation continues to roar ahead in the U.S., hitting yet another 30 year high, this time in October. Prices rose across a wide swath of items people use in their…
Cryptocurrency as an antidote to cancel culture
Regardless of what you think of so-called “cancel culture,” the concept fits within the older concept that those outside the mainstream suffer for their actions and opinions, whether it be…
Cryptocurrencies and ending economic colonialism
Large sections of the global financial world, regulators in particular, see cryptocurrencies as a threat to the established financial order or, if they are in a good mood, the favorite…
Crypto’s hard lesson in official Washington’s ways
The Senate’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill contains several measures that are supposed to pay for at least a portion of the spending on roads and bridges. Among those items is a…
House member’s opposition to crypto is an exercise in follow the money
It’s no secret that old line financial institutions, their regulators, and an array of politicians great and small are less than keen on the rise of cryptocurrencies. Financial tools that…
Putting underused renewables to work mining cryptocurrency
Most politicians greatly dislike the idea and use of cryptocurrency. It threatens the fiat money central banks print in increasingly massive amounts, and avoids the increasingly intrusive controls governments enforce…
