Tuur Demeester
Tuur Demeester is an investor and economist, mostly in Bitcoin. He launched the investment newsletter MacroTrends in 2008. He founded Adamant Capital in 2017.
Tuur Demeester is an investor and economist, mostly in Bitcoin. He launched the investment newsletter MacroTrends in 2008. He founded Adamant Capital in 2017.
Created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
All Bitcoin reviews by expert Tuur Demeester.
BTC/LN [analogy to] TCP/IP
Bitcoin is becoming a platformβa protocol stack with many features:
- store of value
- low trust wealth transfer
- confidential transactions
- tokenized securities
- high volume payment network
- microtransactions
- smart contracts / programmable money
2019-01-21
Why I think Bitcoin is evolving towards Reserve Asset status:
π 10yr track record
π Highest security
π Stable & growing protocol stack
π Institutional adoption
π High & improving privacy
π Politically neutral
π User sovereignty
π Virtuous liquidity cycle
2018-11-30
The question whether Bitcoin ought to be digital cash or digital gold represents a false dichotomy: it can be both a secure and accessible form of money. By embracing modularity, the main Bitcoin blockchain can act as a maximally secure settlement layer, while second layer payment channels serve as pipelines for fast, high liquidity transactions.
Full review2017-01-15