On the potential of closed-system blockchains
Izabella Kaminska
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
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The value of Bitcoins has exploded. Again.
FT Alphaville takes you through the latest news as well as the history of Bitcoin, and also we get a bit philosophical about what it all means. Jump in and join the discussion!
- The problem with Bitcoin
- Ceci n'est pas un Bitcoin
- When memory becomes money; the story of Bitcoin so far
- Bitcoin as fiat
- Of Bitcoins and RINs
- BitCult
- A cybernetic ledger
- #000000 Wednesday
- Chin chin, Tyler!
- Bricks of gold, bits of code: the worship of things shiny and useless
- Hacker and Deflationary Devils on the Silk Road
- Introducing the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust
- A Bitcomedy
- Silk Road: an (alleged) $1.2bn business
- Ludwig von Mises in the role of Walter White
- A crypto crisis or a crypto triumph?
- The crypto coalmine thought experiment
- The bubble is us
- Bitcoinery, mapped
- Alleged digital criminal masterminds have assets/liabilities too
- Information asymmetry, crypto currency edition
- The Litecoin disruption
- Whither the BTC China premium?
- So this is how fiat currency dies, with thunderous CPUs?
- Capital controls, Bitcoin edition
- The PBOC, Bitcoin, and Chinese aunties
- There's nothing new under the sun, including Bitcoin
- The Hubble bubble theory of the continuous expansion of the financial universe
- This is nuts. When's the crash?
- Breaking through the ZLB with virtual currencies
- Some altcoin memes are more equal than others
- The Bitcoin personality cult lives on
- Magic: the undercapitalised gathering online
- The Krypto$ theory
- Bitcoin founder's writing matches nothing in Dorian Nakamoto's background
- Standing on the shoulders of cryptocurrency giants
- Let them eat Bitcoin mining rigs
- OpecCoin
- The linguistic verdict: Dorian is probably not Satoshi
- Peak Bitcoin or peak hedge fund?
- Why the golden goose market may be decaying
- Bitcoin shocker!
- Who'd have thought. Cryptocurrencies are replicating conventional systems
- I see blockchains
- Blockchains vs stock exchanges
- Newsflash Bitcoin people, we already have a private money system
- Do private sales affect public prices?
- Bitcoin auction, the aftermath
- Seventy Bitcoin risks
- Osborne deals with the pirate threat
- A Bitcoin flash crash
- The BoE opens Pandora's Bitcoin box
- BoE on the moneyness of modern payment innovation
- BoE on the Bitcoin tech arms race
- BoE on the potential of the blockchain
- Cult Markets: When the bubble bursts
- Bitcoin business model too good to be true...proves to be too good to be true
- BitCon: The book
- Bitcoin cognitive dissonance of the day, Bill Gates edition
- Who needs caveat emptor when you've got Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin's upcoming capital crisis
- Do you have a finance degree from the university of Bitcoin?
- How to corner markets, Bitcoin style
- Bitcoin continues to evolve into a worse version of the current system
- On the potential of closed-system blockchains
- Blockchains as a public and private resource
- Bitcoin's lien problem
- Exposing the "If we call it a blockchain, perhaps it won't be deemed a cartel?" tactic
- Scenes from the 21 Inc pitch book
- 21 Inc and the plan to kill the free internet
- Summers and Swiss bitcoin hoards
- Bitcoin Opec favours 8MB blocksize increase
- On the robustness of cryptobonds and crypto settlement
- Bitcoin being forked?
- What goes up must come down
- The Mt.Gox Bitcoin bubble
- Burn it like a bitcoin processor company (Updated)
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not an OTC story anymore
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not a competent administration story anymore
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not a single-entry system
- Introducing the Chinese Social Financial Network
- So, Satoshi is an Aussie?
- Doubts grow over Craig S. Wright's connection to Satoshi Nakamoto
The value of Bitcoins has exploded. Again.
FT Alphaville takes you through the latest news as well as the history of Bitcoin, and also we get a bit philosophical about what it all means. Jump in and join the discussion!
- The problem with Bitcoin
- Ceci n'est pas un Bitcoin
- When memory becomes money; the story of Bitcoin so far
- Bitcoin as fiat
- Of Bitcoins and RINs
- BitCult
- A cybernetic ledger
- #000000 Wednesday
- Chin chin, Tyler!
- Bricks of gold, bits of code: the worship of things shiny and useless
- Hacker and Deflationary Devils on the Silk Road
- Introducing the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust
- A Bitcomedy
- Silk Road: an (alleged) $1.2bn business
- Ludwig von Mises in the role of Walter White
- A crypto crisis or a crypto triumph?
- The crypto coalmine thought experiment
- The bubble is us
- Bitcoinery, mapped
- Alleged digital criminal masterminds have assets/liabilities too
- Information asymmetry, crypto currency edition
- The Litecoin disruption
- Whither the BTC China premium?
- So this is how fiat currency dies, with thunderous CPUs?
- Capital controls, Bitcoin edition
- The PBOC, Bitcoin, and Chinese aunties
- There's nothing new under the sun, including Bitcoin
- The Hubble bubble theory of the continuous expansion of the financial universe
- This is nuts. When's the crash?
- Breaking through the ZLB with virtual currencies
- Some altcoin memes are more equal than others
- The Bitcoin personality cult lives on
- Magic: the undercapitalised gathering online
- The Krypto$ theory
- Bitcoin founder's writing matches nothing in Dorian Nakamoto's background
- Standing on the shoulders of cryptocurrency giants
- Let them eat Bitcoin mining rigs
- OpecCoin
- The linguistic verdict: Dorian is probably not Satoshi
- Peak Bitcoin or peak hedge fund?
- Why the golden goose market may be decaying
- Bitcoin shocker!
- Who'd have thought. Cryptocurrencies are replicating conventional systems
- I see blockchains
- Blockchains vs stock exchanges
- Newsflash Bitcoin people, we already have a private money system
- Do private sales affect public prices?
- Bitcoin auction, the aftermath
- Seventy Bitcoin risks
- Osborne deals with the pirate threat
- A Bitcoin flash crash
- The BoE opens Pandora's Bitcoin box
- BoE on the moneyness of modern payment innovation
- BoE on the Bitcoin tech arms race
- BoE on the potential of the blockchain
- Cult Markets: When the bubble bursts
- Bitcoin business model too good to be true...proves to be too good to be true
- BitCon: The book
- Bitcoin cognitive dissonance of the day, Bill Gates edition
- Who needs caveat emptor when you've got Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin's upcoming capital crisis
- Do you have a finance degree from the university of Bitcoin?
- How to corner markets, Bitcoin style
- Bitcoin continues to evolve into a worse version of the current system
- On the potential of closed-system blockchains
- Blockchains as a public and private resource
- Bitcoin's lien problem
- Exposing the "If we call it a blockchain, perhaps it won't be deemed a cartel?" tactic
- Scenes from the 21 Inc pitch book
- 21 Inc and the plan to kill the free internet
- Summers and Swiss bitcoin hoards
- Bitcoin Opec favours 8MB blocksize increase
- On the robustness of cryptobonds and crypto settlement
- Bitcoin being forked?
- What goes up must come down
- The Mt.Gox Bitcoin bubble
- Burn it like a bitcoin processor company (Updated)
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not an OTC story anymore
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not a competent administration story anymore
- If you call it a blockchain, it's not a single-entry system
- Introducing the Chinese Social Financial Network
- So, Satoshi is an Aussie?
- Doubts grow over Craig S. Wright's connection to Satoshi Nakamoto
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