Outrage ensued at the Libertarian National Convention when Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark told a male delegate to “Eat a Dick.” People accused Sarwark of rampant homophobia, and he knew it was a situation he needed to make right. Sarwark consulted with the Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Jo Jorgensen in hopes of correcting the issue….
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook’s Libra – a stablecoin that could offer a serious challenge to the money and banking status quo – will likely be very good for mainstream acceptance of blockchain technology as an infrastructure of a global privately produced currency. It could become a genuine challenge to the whole idea of nation-state money as…
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook changed the way we communicate, interact, and gather information. You don’t have to love all the results. But the reality of the shift in our lives is undeniable. Will Facebook’s new initiative to create a cryptocurrency do the same for money and payment systems? Most likely no, but the creation…
Let us start with talking about bad money, by which I mean the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen, the Chinese renminbi, the British pound, the Swiss franc, and basically all official currencies. They all represent fiat money. The term fiat is derived from the Latin word fiat and means “so be it.” Fiat…
In the last 3 months, we’ve seen great strides from Crypto making a comeback into Bull Market territory. Bitcoin has once again risen above the $5,000 mark. This is a 35% increase in the last three months. Crypto is known for its volatility and wild swings, but the good news is that this growth has…
by Kitty Testa If you look back at all the news of 2018, it seems as if everything centered around Trump’s tweets and Russia! Russia! Russia! The news cycles spun so fast that it was hard to remember what happened the week before. We moved from one hysteria to another as the never-Trumpers kept warning…
Since it’s conception, Bitcoin and other E-currencies (or cryptocurrencies) have always gained attention from law enforcement. The anonymity of cryptocurrency has allowed for potential criminal exchanges to go undetected. Though recently, cryptocurrencies have caught the eyes of DOJ for another reason; market price manipulation. The lack of regulation on most free market e-currencies has caused the…
Last year, Bitcoin reached over $2,000 and long-term investors were ecstatic. Those that had heard of Bitcoin were kicking themselves for not listening to their libertarian friend preach about a new “blockchain” technology that could decentralize banks. This is no longer the case. Considering that only two years prior Bitcoin was at a little over…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Eric Lough The last few weeks have been a wild in the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin reached an all time high at little over $5,000 on September 2nd and since then has taken a dive. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has taken around a $400 loss. This volatility…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa The value of cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed in 2017. Ethereum’s cryptocurrency, Ether, which could be had for less than $8 per virtual coin in late December 2016, is selling for over $370 as of today—increasing its value 47-fold. A year ago you could have purchased Litecoin for a…