Economics

A Weekly Series Of Essays About The Language Of Bitcoin by Alex McShane

There are countless elements in Bitcoin that structurally instill the process of Schumpeterian creative destruction into its ecosystem.

Modern economists are often vehemently opposed to bitcoin and its application as money - why is this?

This deep dive explores what problems plague our modern monies, and how bitcoin cures these issues.

Two laws describe the economic incentives given two forms of competing money in restricted or unrestricted markets.

Upon realization of Bitcoin’s true value, one must reconcile their economic opportunity cost with their new reality.

The Bitcoin halvening of 2020 may give bitcoin economically incontestable reasons to become a legitimately competitive store of value.

A recently published economic research paper argues that a global cryptocurrency would make international monetary policy impossible.

Blockchain research institute and accelerator Cryptic Labs is adding two Nobel Laureates to its team of advisors.

Blockchain theorist Melanie Swan discusses three recent developments in the blockchain economy, using classical economic principles to distinguish between hype and long-term structural change.