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Bits and Barbarism

Bits and Barbarism | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"Talk to gold bugs and they’ll tell you that paper money comes from governments, which can’t be trusted not to debase their currencies. The odd thing, however, is that for all the talk of currency debasement, such debasement is getting very hard to find. It’s not just that after years of dire warnings about runaway inflation, inflation in advanced countries is clearly too low, not too high. Even if you take a global perspective, episodes of really high inflation have become rare. Still, hyperinflation hype springs eternal.

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Here’s what Paul Krugman doesn’t get about Bitcoin

Here’s what Paul Krugman doesn’t get about Bitcoin | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Paul Krugman doesn't like Bitcoin. He's taken several swipes at the technology on his blog over the last couple of years. And yesterday he devoted a full column to denigrating the cryptocurrency. He argues that Bitcoin mining, the process where new bitcoins are created by repetitive mathematical calculations, is socially wasteful. And, he argues, that's reflective of the pointlessness of Bitcoin more generally.

 
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