Angesichts globaler Konflikte und grassierender Inflation dürfte sich eine Investition der Schweizerischen Nationalbank in Bitcoin als langfristig kluge Entscheidung erweisen. Zusammen mit Luzius Meisser, Gründer der Bitcoin Association Switzerland, habe ich einen Beitrag zur Debatte verfasst, ob und in welchem Umfang die Schweizerische Nationalbank Bitcoins erwerben und halten solle. Der Beitrag ist in der Aprilausgabe […]
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Bitcoin at 10 – Money in a World of Tokens
On this very day ten years ago – January 3, 2009 –, the Bitcoin network went live. Bitcoin’s first block, the Genesis Block, includes a short message as a reminder that the world was, at the time, finding itself in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the 1920s. The message refers to the […]
Bitcoin’s Value Is Purely Subjective
While one Bitcoin token is currently approaching 5’000 US$, many people wonder why Bitcoin has «value» in the first place. The first question that arises: Might those people actually mean «price» instead of «value»? Well, the concepts of price and value are entirely different. They cannot be the same logically. A person only sells, or […]