As long time supporters of our company know, the first product we launched to market in 2014 was Airbitz — a mobile Bitcoin wallet, focused on the ability to send and receive BTC between peers and merchants, with a built in business directory to facilitate just that. As the market for crypto assets expanded rapidly, with a widening focus on buying, selling, and trading an ever growing expanse of assets, our business model shifted with the times. These changing market conditions motivated the launch of Edge in February of 2018, a separate application from our legacy project, Airbitz. Edge 1.0…

2020 is a year most people would like to forget. A rare, once in a generation culmination of a worldwide pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil. It shed light to the barely understood and underestimated effects of human isolation. It is a year where technology rose to the occasion to keep us connected, entertained, and for the fortunate ones, employed. For those of us connected to cryptocurrency, it reinforced the value of sound money in a world with near endless devaluing of government money.

Today I would like to share what 2020 was like for us here at Edge, our…

The Aragon Network was one of the early projects to launch on the Ethereum network in mid-2017. The white paper was released on April 20th, 2017 and shortly after, the sale and distribution of the Aragon Network Token (ANT) commenced. ANT was one of the earliest governance tokens that could be used to participate in the Aragon DAO.

What is Aragon?

The Aragon Network provides basic ethereum based services that are needed to make decentralized organizations possible and widespread on ethereum.

Aragon is a meta-DAO in the sense that the Aragon Network is a DAO that has created a Dapp that abstracts the…

Dogecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, being used by cryptocurrency enthusiasts all over the world for over six years. Dogecoin was a part of a mini alt-coin boom that was created in the wake of a huge Bitcoin bull run in 2013. Whenever a technology, company, or person has success you can almost guarantee there will be a round of copy cats trying to capture a part of that success.

The first altcoin was Namecoin, next came Litecoin, then came our beloved alt-coin boom in 2013 that bequeathed us Dogecoin. Much wow. Much riches.

Many alt-coins in the early…

We know that Satoshi and Hal Finney were the earliest miners, with many more coming after, but the first year of Bitcoin mining was very static and boring. The network’s hash-rate was stuck at a max of 7 million hashes per second, which could have been created by no more than 100 people with CPUs. Most of the time it was probably much less than 100 people with CPUs. For a full year, anywhere from two people to a few dozen people were running the bitcoin network. …

In late November, 1913, on a private island off the coast of Georgia, a few of the most powerful men in the United States and the world gathered to craft up the plan for a new Central Bank in the United States. This Central Bank would come to be called the “Federal Reserve” and would go on to be the most important central bank in the world for over a century. The Fed, till this day, is the world’s most powerful central bank.

Context & Background

Banking Panics

The United States financial system had some sort of banking panic every decade or so throughout the…

The concept of sound money has been around for millenia, but our current conception of “Sound Money” gained prominence as a more refined concept early in the 19th century amongst liberal (classical) economic theorists, financiers, and political power brokers during American and European based globalization. These thinkers were trying to answer deep questions about what type of money and economic system secured economic efficiency, multi-polar coordination, and human liberty best.

Gold and other precious metals have enjoyed the privilege of monetary premia for millenia because of their superior moneyness, but creating social and financial systems on top of them is…

Bitcoin Cash is due for another upgrade on November 15. Unfortunately this upgrade will likely result in a contentious chain-split, potentially creating another cryptocurrency due to differences between the founders of Bitcoin ABC and the rest of the Bitcoin Cash network.

There are two proposals set to be implemented in Bitcoin Cash, but it appears most of the network will only accept one because the other is deeply controversial throughout the community. The change with broad support is an update to the difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) that’s crucial to the stability of the network, its incentives, and the integrity of…