{"id":3404,"date":"2017-12-27T21:37:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2017-12-27T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T13:37:58","slug":"december-2017-crypto-tab-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/12\/27\/december-2017-crypto-tab-sweep","title":{"rendered":"December 2017 Crypto Tab Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies? Blockchains? I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of them before by now, unless you&#8217;re living under a rock. I&#8217;m an open source &amp; database guy, so for me, I look at all this with a fine toothed comb. Probably doesn&#8217;t help that I enjoy reading the FT on a daily basis. Anyway, a selection of links&#8230; You may not be able to read all the links (subscriber only), but maybe I&#8217;ll think about something new come 2018.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/adfb45aa-9277-11e7-bdfa-eda243196c2c?emailId=5a1ef0137127bd0004dfa346&amp;segmentId=e2b21419-1ad0-96bc-fb17-88413ea973e2\">Markets signal diminishing faith in US government<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Big things happen if someone invents the right story and promulgates it.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Shiller, author <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BJWNw6\">Irrational Exuberance<\/a>. He called the dotcom and US housing bubbles bursting before it happened; he now calls Bitcoin a bubble<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4682c87c-d560-11e7-a303-9060cb1e5f44\">Bitcoin swings from bull to bear and back in a day<\/a> &#8211; when Bitcoin hit an all-time high of a little over USD$11,000! &#8220;It is a classic bubble, and bubbles go up a lot. It is a mania and the best thing about it is you can\u2019t value it, like trading technology stocks in the \u201990s.&#8221; &#8211; Rich Ross, head of technical analysis, Evercore. &#8220;Every three weeks it goes up, people take profits and then it goes down but money is still coming in so it will keep going up,&#8221; said David Drake, managing a family office investing in Bitcoin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1c034898-d50f-11e7-a303-9060cb1e5f44\">There are many reasons to be cautious about bitcoin<\/a> &#8211; Jean Tirole on the ICO craze<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4e391b1a-d502-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9\">FT Lex: Bitcoin: a poxy currency<\/a> &#8211; learned a new word today, <em>poxy<\/em>. Thinking in terms of hyper-deflation makes the mania easier to treat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/2017\/12\/14\/2196804\/bitcoins-fractioning-problem\/\">FT Alphaville: Bitcoin\u2019s fractioning problem<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/video\/8416121b-9a8c-4a3d-bcd3-cb89e7bd4d7a\">Listen: Should investors buy Bitcoin?<\/a> &#8211; FT Money presenter Claer Barrett and guests discuss whether or not Bitcoin deserves a place in your investment portfolio. Good podcast. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/2017\/12\/13\/2196785\/busting-the-myth-that-bitcoin-is-actually-an-efficient-payment-mechanism\/\">Busting the myth that bitcoin is actually an efficient payment mechanism<\/a> &#8211; yes, it is expensive to use. Not the standard take on &#8220;energy use&#8221; either. FT Alphaville only requires registration for free reading BTW<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e3ef0ebe-df28-11e7-8f9f-de1c2175f5ce\">Bitcoin and cash cast a shadow over banks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jacquelinegaravente\/cryptokitties-b7689152270\">CryptoKitties<\/a> &#8211; digital pets, Ethereum&#8217;s first real use case? <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15879090\">Hacker News: Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/7il1sx\/sixty_free_lectures_from_princeton_on_bitcoin_and\/\">Sixty free lectures from Princeton on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Avg length ~15 mins. Links in post.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.goodaudience.com\/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-started-in-the-cryptocurrency-world-69c50516be71\">A beginner&#8217;s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-fork-not-stock-split\/\">Why a Bitcoin Fork Is Not a &#8216;Stock Split&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2017\/12\/19\/How-To-Sell-Bitcoin-in-Canada\">How To Sell Bitcoins in Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/decentralize.today\/dont-fall-for-the-hype-why-bitcoin-s-10-000-price-doesn-t-reflect-its-true-value-6b42a59fce0a\">Don\u2019t fall for the hype\u00e2\u20ac\u0160\u2013\u00e2\u20ac\u0160Why Bitcoin\u2019s $10,000 Price Doesn\u2019t Reflect Its True Value.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/magazine\/20171019\/On-the-Cover\/Initial-coin-offerings-investing-s-wild-frontier\">Initial coin offerings: investing&#8217;s wild frontier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/is-proof-of-stake-really-the-solution-2db68487f4ba\">Is Proof of Stake really the solution?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/the-token-handbook-a80244a6aacb\">The Token Handbook<\/a> &#8211; its basically a book, lots to read here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20December%202017%20Crypto%20Tab%20Sweep&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F12%2F27%2Fdecember-2017-crypto-tab-sweep&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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This is in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3617,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2021\/01\/30\/life-with-rona-2-0-days-4-5-6-7-8-and-9","url_meta":{"origin":3404,"position":4},"title":"Life with Rona 2.0 &#8211; Days 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9","date":"30\/1\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"These lack of updates are also likely because I've been quite caught up with stuff. Monday I had a steak from Bay Leaf Steakhouse for dinner. It was kind of weird eating it from packs, but then I'm reminded you could do this in economy class. Tuesday I wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3408,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/01\/01\/movie-for-our-times-tulip-fever","url_meta":{"origin":3404,"position":5},"title":"Movie for our times: Tulip Fever","date":"1\/1\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I was flying and managed to catch Tulip Fever. Interesting show, considering I have had many conversations recently where people had no idea what the Tulip Mania was all about. 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