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Konrad S. Graf

Personal blog · konradsgraf.com/blog1economicswriting

Konrad S. Graf's personal blog at konradsgraf.com covers economics and writing. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “"On the origins of Bitcoin," new work on Bitcoin and monetary theory”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Konrad S. Graf's Bitcoin writing on its origins, its monetary value and 'hyper-monetization', and co-wrote a Bitcoin book. Commenters cite it as background on bitcoin's economics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. "On the origins of Bitcoin," new work on Bitcoin and monetary theory
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-24
  2. Hyper-monetization: Questioning the "Bitcoin bubble" bubble
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. kinghajj · 2013-11-16Recommends
    Here's an interesting paper on this subject that I found via reddit a few days ago. http://konradsgraf.com/blog1/2013/10/23/on-the-origins-of-bi...

    Comment linking /blog1/2013/10/23/on-the-origins-of-bitcoin-my-new-work-on-bitcoin-and-monetar.html

    on “Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Our fancy new book and website”
  2. Submitted Hyper-monetization: Questioning the "Bitcoin bubble" bubble as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. If it's not a bubble, it's the first hyper-monetization. http://konradsgraf.com/blog1/2013/4/6/hyper-monetization-que...

    Comment linking /blog1/2013/4/6/hyper-monetization-questioning-the-bitcoin-bubble-bubble.html

    on “Bitcoin hits $200”
  4. Submitted "On the origins of Bitcoin," new work on Bitcoin and monetary theory as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. You should check out one of my other articles, The Original Value of Bitcoins, which explains the relationship of Bitcoin to the regression theorem. http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/07/02/the-original-value... There is also relevant work done by Peter Surda http://dev.economicsofbitcoin.com/mastersthesis/mastersthesi... and Konrad Graf, whose work is definitive, but significantly longer. http://konradsgraf.com/bl…

    Comment linking /blog1/2013/11/3/expanded-on-the-origins-of-bitcoin-paper-with-empirical-supp.html

    on “The Problem with Altcoins”
  6. Submitted A tale of Bitcoins and $500 suits as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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