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The Stablecoin Moment
Introduction In the world of cryptocurrency, 2020 has become the year of the stablecoin. Stablecoins can be broadly defined as a “…class of cryptocurrencies that attempts to offer price stability and are backed by a reserve asset.” In most cases, stablecoins are pegged to the value of the dollar (the “reserve asset” mentioned in the… Continue reading
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Book Review: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Milli by Nathaniel Popper
In the Spring of 2019, I took a business school class on blockchain and cryptocurrency. The class left me more confused than anything, but it prompted me to start reading about the topic. Over the last year, I’ve gone down the proverbial rabbit hole as people in the space are fond of saying. For me,… Continue reading
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Book Review: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
After staring at this book for 15 years as it sat on various bookshelves in my childhood home and my later apartments, I finally picked up All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. In high school US history, I found the 1930s and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal to be one of the most… Continue reading
