Perspective, opinion, and commentary on bitcoin, altcoins, and cryptocurrency for people who want to focus on the big picture. Don't sweat the day-to-day. It's cryptocurrency - relax and enjoy the ride!
29 May 2020 5 minute read 7 comments MarkHelfman
Financial uncertainty makes people do strange things. In April 2020, people bought oil contracts, silver, and shares of companies that have no customers or revenue. This, despite massive job losses, pandemic disease, and a global economic meltdown. S...
29 May 2020 4 minute read 10 comments MarkHelfman
Cryptocurrency advocates remain massed and ready to rush the barricades of traditional finance. Who will rise to lead this charge? The Chinese government, if you can believe that. It will soon launch a digital yuan on its nascent Blockchain Service N...
27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments MarkHelfman
Now and then I write two minute’s worth of thoughts on bitcoin. It’s my very, very brief commentary. This one first appeared on Medium, reposted here for your enjoyment. Comments welcome! Two Minutes on Bitcoin To really make the best decisions, you...
20 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MarkHelfman
First off, THANK YOU to everybody who's tipped, liked, and commented on the articles I've posted here. You keep me motivated. It's a big world, hard to carve out a space in it, even harder to build a platform. I'm stoked you like my writing. Don't kn...
16 May 2020 5 minute read 16 comments MarkHelfman
Recently, I published Stop Arguing With People. Show Them How Cryptocurrency is Useful and Education Will Not Get People to Use Bitcoin—Here’s Why.” Contradiction? No. Most people don’t like to learn or argue, but they like useful things. Maybe that’...
16 May 2020 8 minute read 8 comments MarkHelfman
A few weeks ago, I introduced somebody to Brave, a browser that works faster than other browsers, uses less energy, blocks trackers, and pays a little cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Token (BAT), to everybody who uses it. After she installed it on he...
16 May 2020 9 minute read 15 comments MarkHelfman
This: Reminds me of July 2019, when Donald Trump tweeted against cryptocurrency, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blasted bitcoin, U.S. Congress lambasted Libra, and the I.R.S. threatened more than 10,000 Coinbase users with audits. The crypto...
9 May 2020 4 minute read 9 comments MarkHelfman
It’s 2020. Bitcoin’s been around for eleven years. Ethereum’s almost six years old. Cardano’s still in the womb. Over that time, cryptocurrency has given true believers enough evidence to claim it’s legit technology while giving mainstream thinkers a...
2 May 2020 9 minute read 15 comments MarkHelfman
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” Vladimir Lenin We have had a few of those weeks. While the world’s financial system teeters on the edge of collapse and deflationary depression, the cryptosphere i...
18 Apr 2020 4 minute read 7 comments MarkHelfman
Whenever bitcoin comes up in conversation, somebody always asks me whether they should buy it. In the midst of financial crisis and pandemic disease, they’re still all about the money, not the substance. Do they think they might need a source of mone...
