1/ If you've studied the history of money under free banking sytsems (ie @lawrencehwhite1's work such as http://amzn.to/2Gt432p ), fiat currencies now being issued by competing private entities is delightfully nostalgic. (and good - it's an innovation whose loss was a loss).
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5/ An interesting question for the emerging field I'll call "cryptomacroeconomics" (as opposed to cryptomicroeconomics, ie miner/attacker/user incentives): what will the effect of fiat-denominated cryptocurrencies be on that fiat's value?
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6/ Maybe they increase demand for cash (by increasing usefulness), but some will increase the supply (ie via issuance of currencies like
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7/ Which means, with truly epic irony, these currencies could get their value through (modest) inflation - ie stealing it from current cash-holders, just like central bank printing. Which is hilarious, counterintuitive, and yet flows straight from monetarist first principles.
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8/ That's life on the frontier - there's so much missing, which means there's so much to build, hence the appeal to builders - of technologies & teams, but also models & ideas. And analysis lags technology, so cryptomacroeconomists have, if anything, even more work ahead. Yay!
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