bitcoin

There was a talk run by the Australian Business Economists last week and the speaker was from the Reserve Bank of Australia. Naturally, I had to offer a breakdown and analysis from a bitcoiner perspective:

Links:

• RBA Speech Text: https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2018/sp-so-2018-06-26.html
• William Stanley Jevons on stages of money: https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnMME.html?chapter_num=4#book-reader
• Lightning Network channels and explorer: https://1ml.com/
• David Harding’s answer on Lightning Network and Channel Factories: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/67158/what-are-channel-factories-and-how-do-they-work/67187
• Long term bitcoin investment returns from Coin.Dance stats here: https://coin.dance/stats
• Grayscale investment paper, “A New Frontier”: https://grayscale.co/a-new-frontier-research-paper/
• Twitter video example of Lightning Network payment in AU: https://twitter.com/danielalexiuc/status/993667149238435840
• Stock to Flow ratio of Bitcoin vs Gold: https://twitter.com/vxschmid/status/1012062994346528768
  • Stock to Flow ratio report: https://ingoldwetrust.report/igwt-2018-en/?lang=en
• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

Getting tired of Roger Ver shilling his bags:

The BIS are a pack of socialists / interventionists. Of course they wouldn’t understand Bitcoin. Here’s my video debunking their terrible report:

Here’s a new weekly update video. This week I wanted to focus more on investment theses around Bitcoin as we had some good updates on that this week. More serious investment cases for Bitcoin are coming out nowadays. As I mention in the video, I think this concept that people should put 1-5% of their portfolio into Bitcoin is going to become more mainstream.

Links:

1. Pierre Rochard’s Bitcoin Investment Theses Part 1 – https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/bitcoin-investment-theses-part-1-e97670b5389b
2. Greyscale – a new Frontier Research Paper
   https://grayscale.co/a-new-frontier-research-paper/
3. Jimmy Song – The Truth about Smart Contracts https://medium.com/@jimmysong/the-truth-about-smart-contracts-ae825271811f

For next week’s update video I’m looking to cover some things happening with Lightning Network. Please like and share the video if you get value out of this.

I’m noticing too many shitcoin funds, so that is the topic of my video for today: