Due to popular demand that I don’t quite understand, people have requested I make my Bitcoin research paper available. I did it in 2017/18 as part of my honours degree in economics.
So, here it is, in PDF format: Can Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin survive their Own Innovation – Final.
I have to issue a disclaimer – my opinion regarding cryptocurrency, and BTC specifically, has changed somewhat since publication. For starters, Bitcoin (BTC) has had its bubble event. And it survived it. Its overall volatility has declined year-on-year, and it is a cheap and viable method of hedging currency risk. In fact, today I purchased my first BTC. Better late than never!
Now, I will be doing a podcast about this topic on Sunday with Ricki Allardice, my resident crypto expert. Bitcoin isn’t some magic get-rich-quick scheme: it is a digital asset and currency. Bitcoin is becoming easier to buy and trade. The exchanges are more secure, and more and more ordinary people are adopting it.
There is definitely more to Bitcoin than its detractors give it credit for. But it is also unfortunately punted by many snake oil salesmen as being something it is not. Bitcoin also has an unfair and undeserved reputation as being used for criminal activity. This is, of course, complete nonsense: criminals have used ordinary cash since forever, and nobody complains about that.
So I invite you to please read my silly paper, and tune in to my latest podcast on Sunday. I will upload it to my channel (the Paratus Podcast) on iono.fm.
Written by Gideon Joubert
Gideon is owner and editor of Paratus
Peter Moss
•5 years ago
If you can research bitcoin which really does not impact the lives of every South African to any great extent why can you not research the failure of firearm organisations throughout the world to make the slightest impact on gun control? Nobody can claim firearm organisations have made any progress in fighting gun control. There is no research, no discussion and no examination of this universal failure. A failure they actually deny right up to the point firearm ownership is virtually moot while claiming to represent firearm owners and to be fighting for their right and ability of armed self-defence. More recently New Zealand exhibited this impotence and failure but follows Australia, UK, South Africa and the USA where thousands of gun laws have been passed, 67 last year and more than 280 since Sandy Hook in a country that has a prohibition on infringement of this right.
Firearm organisations have the potential of millions of supporters and people willing to help to retain their safety and lives yet this has never been translated into permanent success in opposing gun control.
As a claimed expert and representative of an organisation supposedly fighting for firearm owners I challenge you to research and report your findings. Simply put why do firearm organisations fail to make the slightest difference to the demand for gun control from government and the public that destroys firearm ownership. Why is there absolutely no effort on the part of firearm organisations to change this situation and to do what they promise members and citizens?
This is an open request on behalf of the many stranded firearm owners without hope of success from firearm organisations and will be published in other media since you practice censorship and denial of the truth contary to your advertised pretence of presenting truth.
Louis
•5 years ago
Had a great chat to Gideon about bitcoin and his research paper recently!