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LODE Marketing & Q1 Events
Leer en Español Lire en français The LODE Community is excited to announce a whole new level of Marketing expertise to the LODE Project! Two new talented individuals from Archive Digital and industry leaders from New York-based Freesora Media have joined the LODE...
Silver 2019: Honest Money. By The People For The People
By David Smith More than likely 2018 marked the end of the seven year cyclical bear market in silver, within the context of the ongoing secular precious metals’ bull run. More than a few worn out silver devotees, some having held for decades, finally gave up the ghost...
Delaware Vault Announcement
Leer en Español Lire en français LODE Expands Vaulting Services - January 2019 LODE is continuing to grow and add service capabilities; in addition to the current list of LODE vaults around the world - Cayman, Toronto, Lichtenstein, Frankfurt, Singapore, and New...
Recap Of Accomplishments For 2018 & Operational Ethos
Leer en Español Lis Français 2018 was a mad year for Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Silver - for LODE it was the year that dreams became a reality. In 2018, the LODE Community accomplished a great deal while advancing the mandate of restoring physical silver to the...
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Blockchain Internet: Unchaining the Web
Why Blockchain Internet? The internet is approaching its thirtieth birthday, or thereabouts. We’ve come a long way since those early days of floppy discs and dial-up modems. Some would question that while the technology has improved significantly, the democracy of it...
Stablecoins and Currency Pegs: What Can History Teach Us?
Stablecoins are all the rage in 2018. At last count, there were no less than twenty projects aiming to be the king of cryptocurrency exchange stability. Fiat currency pegs have been used throughout history as a way to fix one country’s currency against another. An...
Herding in the Most Volatile Market in Decades
In finance and economics, there is a branch called behavioural finance, which tries to theorize, research, and document the human emotional aspect and behaviour of financial participants. Behavioural finance suggests psychologically based theories to try to explain...
The Future of Cloud Computing | Blockchain Will Have Its Day
The web is peppered with articles on the future of cloud computing. The majority of these focus on things like artificial intelligence and big data that will aid big business and presumably know more about us than we do ourselves. It appears, however, that many are...
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ECONOMIES
“Paper Promises” vs. Honest Money: You Can See (and feel) the Difference!
Fiat "money" is currency backed by nothing more than faith. This assurance rests on the assumption that when it's spent, the value will be such that you can reliably purchase something desired - something valuable. Nothing other than confidence causes a person to keep...
Bank of central banks wants to stop creation of crypto
The rise of Bitcoin and the blockchain industry has been accompanied by criticism, just like any other emerging tech sector. Such criticism was heard during the dawn of the internet, and despite it, the internet is still alive and well today. Industry experts have...
Decentralization, Part 1: The Paradigm of Paradigms?
From at least the mid-20th century to (seemingly) the present, the leimotif weaving through business, politics and social organizations has been centralization - concentrating control of an activity or organization(s) under either a single authority, or layered ones...
Silver, Part II: Doing Good and Doing Well
Silver has antimicrobial properties, enabling it to purify milk (which Americans in the 19th century Westward expansion utilized), and water. Not to mention current use in shirts, underwear and socks to kill bacteria and limit body odor. Silver can be found in band...
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Shamir’s Secret Explained: Distributing a Seed Phrase Into Multiple Parts
When an individual first joins the cryptocurrency economy and obtains their first bitcoins, at times the process can be daunting. Most veterans will often tell newcomers that they need to secure their coin’s private keys in order to enjoy sovereign ownership. However,...
Shamir’s Secret Explained: Distributing a Seed Phrase Into Multiple Parts
When an individual first joins the cryptocurrency economy and obtains their first bitcoins, at times the process can be daunting. Most veterans will often tell newcomers that they need to secure their coin’s private keys in order to enjoy sovereign ownership. However,...