History
3 Giga-Brained Ideas From Consensus Day 2
Crypto shows that ideas can be valuable, even if they’re not useful … yet.
Who You Really Are: A Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus
The internet phenomenon and historian explains why true anonymity is hard within internet culture.
Volatility Ruled Crypto Markets in 2021, From $69K Bitcoin to Elon Musk’s ‘Dogecoin to the Moooonn’
NFTs exploded, Coinbase stock went public, El Salvador bought the dip and China cracked down on bitcoin miners, while Solana’s SOL tokens and Polygon’s MATIC shot up by multiples of 90 or more. Here’s how crypto traders played it.
South China Morning Post to Mint Historical Records as NFTs
The SCMP introduced its ARTIFACT standard for recording historical accounts and assets on the blockchain as NFTs.
Nobody Saw Inflation Coming in the 1960s, but It Could Be Back: Economist
Very few of today's bond portfolio managers and traders can remember the last inflation shock, but that does not make a new shock less likely.
A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.
8 Historical Analogies That Help Explain the Madness of 2020
From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year.
Ethereum History in 5 Charts
Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on its mainnet. Here are five charts for understanding Ethereum's evolution.
