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Bitcoin Is More About Living on Your Own Terms Than Simply About Money

"Bitcoin’s contributions to our lives far outweigh the money."

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A Cryptocurrency Transaction is Very Similar to a Paper Check (Cheque)

"You can think of a cryptocurrency transaction much like a paper check."

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Deborah Simpier – Tales from the Field: Building Decentralized ISPs

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The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible

"Meet Whit Diffie, the man who invented public key cryptography and brought encryption to the masses"

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When HODLING Bitcoin, There’s Only One Number That Really Matters

"Hint: this number is not the price of Bitcoin."

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Zack Herring & Katie Johnson – Stop Building S*** People Don't Need

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From ISP To P2P: How Mesh Networks Take Bitcoin Off The Grid

"But what if I told you that, in the event of a mass internet outage, there’s a good chance that Bitcoin would survive? That chance is real and growing thanks to the promise of mesh networks."

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James Young – Money Legos

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Proof of Patronage

"Towards a Sustainable Future of Bitcoin Developer Funding"

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Bitcoin Is The Technology Of Dissent That Secures Individual Liberties

"As the government becomes more authoritarian, those who speak truth to power are being punished more harshly. Bitcoin as a technology of dissent provides alternative forms of resistance that are much more peaceful and joyous. It offers an avenue for people around the world to express their opposition against their government without directly confronting with power; instead it is simply creating a new world that makes the old system obsolete."

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David Mihal & Austin Griffith – The Burner Wallet (Burn Baby Burn)

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Pushing Real Estate Data to the Chain

"Off-Chain Asset Tokenization is Inherently Trusted. Does it Need to Be That Way?"

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Democracy in the Age of Cryptography

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When One Billion Ethereum Transactions?

"Over the past ten years, there have been over 3.1 billion blockchain transactions in total. Significantly, we crossed the 1 billion aggregate transactions per year threshold in 2019. In fact, more than 37% (>1.1 billion) of all blockchain transactions in history occurred in 2019."

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State of Digital Assets: How Startups are Building the Next Generation of Finance

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How to file your crypto taxes in the US

"The IRS isn’t turning a blind eye to crypto anymore. CPAs and software makers tell Decrypt how to avoid both headaches and penalties this tax season."

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State of Digital Assets: The State of Bitcoin

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Analyst Claims 98% of Mining Rigs Fail to Verify Transactions

"De Vries asserts that 98% of mining rigs will never verify a transaction, resulting in an enormous and unproductive electricity expenditure. “They are sort of participating in a massive lottery and every 10 minutes one gets lucky and gets to produce the next block,” he states."

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