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A medium of exchange

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Carlos Tapang
Dec 2, 2023

A Stablecoin You can Use Daily

What is a stablecoin?

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Carlos Tapang
Mar 20, 2022

Is Your Crypto Money?

Is your crypto money? Can you measure its “moneyness”?

There’s no question the U.S. Dollar is money. In fact, it is the standard by which all other currencies can be compared to for moneyness.

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Carlos Tapang
Apr 7, 2021

Single Most Important Advice to Programmers

I have been a programmer (or, more mystically, software design engineer) since the early C language days. I am old and wise, so please listen like a padwan to a master jedi.

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Carlos Tapang
Mar 9, 2021

Blockchain Gas Fees and Stablecoins

Now that Ethereum is poised to adopt EIP-1559, it helps to rethink the original purpose of gas fees, namely that it’s solely for security. This discussion is crucial for networks that are Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible: such as Hedera Hashgraph, Binance…

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Carlos Tapang
Nov 15, 2020

Jack Ma and the Bean Counters

Jack Ma climbed the economic ladder until he reached the pinnacle where he met and fought against…

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Carlos Tapang
Aug 10, 2020

Money and Its Ease of Use

Your cell phone is very easy to use and yet it’s one of the most complex man-made things in the world (probably in…

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Carlos Tapang
Sep 7, 2019

Stablecoin as Hayek’s Private Money

In a previous article, I describe how money has value. The value of money is based on…

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Carlos Tapang
Sep 6, 2019

How to Popularize a Stablecoin: an Accept-side Strategy

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Carlos Tapang
May 4, 2019

The Value of Money

It all starts with barter or direct exchange. If we were thrown back in time, in a situation in which there were no money, we…

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Carlos Tapang
Apr 28, 2019

Design Patterns for Decentralization

Nature (evolution) has shown us beautiful design patterns for intelligent systems. One such intelligent system is the physical body of any species in the animal kingdom. An animal is centralized in that it has a central nervous system and central blood pump (heart)…

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