What if? One of the better books about cryptocurrency is Cryptoeconomics by an ex US Navy pilot called Eric Voskuil. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it unless you are really an enthusiast but it sets a very interesting tone because he has worked deeply with the US government. For example, we generally read that the

Getting high A short note on all-time highs. Bitcoin, give or take, has an all-time high price of US$69,000, which has been topped a few times intra-day this week. It first arose in November 2021. Since then we have had inflationary impulses of 4.7% in 2021, 8% in 2022 and 4.1% in 2023. As a

Dad Politics is about winning For a long time, since the beginning in fact, digital assets have had no friends in politics. Simply, it was not a vote winner. Indeed there was no need to take a position on things like bitcoin because nobody had really ever heard of it and it was ‘nonsense’ and

Groq* Off topic to start, but this really caught my attention and won’t be in the AFR for at least six months.  I insist you try groq.com. Before you do though, I will explain. Programs like GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini use enormous amounts of computing power. That is why you access them via the web

New Zealand I had no idea who New Zealand’s Reserve Bank Governor was until this week. In a discussion with a parliamentary committee he had this to say about the actions of the Central Bank: “We actually fund ourselves and work out what dividend to pay. It’s a great business to be in Central Banking,

Sideshow Enter the AFR Economics editor. The article makes the case that the legitimisation of bitcoin through the ETFs essentially blesses the use of digital assets. This will usher in an era of government issued central bank digital currencies which people will naturally prefer to bitcoin. Unbacked cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are one, but they

Consensus Is it time to jump on the “Bitcoin bandwagon” asked the AFR. Their full article here is not unreasonable; urging caution and small allocations. “Most advisers, and their licensees, will give them a wide berth at least until there’s a solid performance track record, and an ‘investment grade’ asset consultant rating,” Even now, with

ETF In the end; it was an embarrassment. First of all, the SEC Twitter account announced on Wednesday that the ETF had been approved. Some 15 minutes later, the Chairman of the SEC popped up to claim that the account had been hacked and no such thing was true. A further 15 minutes after that

2023 Last one for this year. Thank you for your emails and support throughout the year. Increasingly it is noticeable that people understand bitcoin and decentralised protocols and what they are trying to achieve. MoneyBits will return on the 12th January … unless something happens in the meantime. If you are short of something to

The price of the ETF And so. We start to see the price of having a bitcoin ETF. Brisbane-based Wallet of Satoshi (WoS) has removed itself from the US App Store. WoS is probably the most successful Australian firm in the entire space with users all over the world. They have done a terrific job