Alex Min

@itsminawhile

Liquality | Bitcoin, Briefly | Tweets represent my own views

New York, NY
Joined September 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 10

    Roundup #26 covers: : Bitcoin 2020 Upgrades : 2019 in Review + Interhash: Derivatives for Miners : Bitcoin's Security Ratio Halving : Importance of Proof of Reserves

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Announcing The Chaincode Podcast: a technical series on Bitcoin protocol development! Our first episode features hosts & with . We discuss Pieter's influential PRs including headers-first syncing, ultraprune, and libsecp.

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    Check out the brand new podcast with . They discuss some of the innovative work Pieter has contributed to as a developer since 2011 such as headers-first syncing, ultraprune, libsecp256k1, and more!

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  7. Jan 24

    “This dual local currency system would allow the central bank to implement as negative an interest rate as necessary for countering a recession, without triggering any large-scale substitutions into cash.”

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  8. Jan 24

    “E-money would be issued only electronically and would pay the policy rate of interest, and cash would have an exchange rate—the conversion rate—against e-money.”

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  9. Jan 24

    “The proposal is for a central bank to divide the monetary base into two separate local currencies—cash and electronic money (e-money).”

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  10. Jan 24

    “When cash is available, however, cutting rates significantly into negative territory becomes impossible... instead of paying negative interest, one can simply hold cash at zero interest. Cash is a free option on zero interest, and acts as an interest rate floor.”

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  11. Jan 24

    “Without cash, depositors would have to pay the negative interest rate to keep their money with the bank, making consumption and investment more attractive. This would jolt lending, boost demand, and stimulate the economy.”

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  12. Jan 24

    “In a cashless world, there would be no lower bound on interest rates. A central bank could reduce the policy rate from, say, 2 percent to minus 4 percent to counter a severe recession. The interest rate cut would transmit to bank deposits, loans, and bonds.”

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  13. Jan 24

    Who remembers this IMF article that proposed a dual-local-currency-system (cash & e-cash) to make negative interest rates work?

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  14. Jan 22
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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    The fact that BSV is a thing and gets speculative attention indicates how far we are from mature crypto markets.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    Today someone moved $1,100,000,000+ of value with irrevocable settlement after 10 minutes to anywhere in the world for about $84. There are some thing that can only be done with .

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    Jan 14
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    10 Jan 2009

    Running bitcoin

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  20. 20 Dec 2019
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