http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ClNCOSS4nGs
David comes in about 15mins into the program. David starts by reviewing what Bitcoin and Ripple systems do. Then the discussion moves to the central importance on trust in markets and how an ecology of competing distributed systems like these P2P-type sytems could replace (or complement) top down Central Bank imposed financial and economic systems. The resulting ecology could be more robust than centralised entities facilitating exchange.
Krugman on Trump’s 80th birthday party
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from Paul Krugman’s blog On Sunday Donald Trump celebrated his 80th
birthday with a cage match on the White House lawn. The match and the
events that surro...