"Bitcoin’s contributions to our lives far outweigh the money."
beginner
"You can think of a cryptocurrency transaction much like a paper check."
"Meet Whit Diffie, the man who invented public key cryptography and brought encryption to the masses"
"Hint: this number is not the price of Bitcoin."
"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."
"Towards a Sustainable Future of Bitcoin Developer Funding"
"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."
"Off-Chain Asset Tokenization is Inherently Trusted. Does it Need to Be That Way?"
"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."
"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."
"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."