It’s not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has shaken the Internet to its core. Regardless of where you stand on the debate, various services have simply refused to handle Wikileaks’ business–everything from domain-name providers to payment services–and this has led to many questioning how robust the Internet actually is. Hackers have already stated...
Yes, blockchain has a scalability problem. Here’s what it is, and here’s what people are doing to solve it. The battle for a scalable solution is the blockchain’s moon race. Bitcoin processes 4.6 transactions per second. Visa does around 1,700 transactions per second on average (based on a calculation derived from the official claim of over 150 million transactions per day). The potential for...
While the true identity of the possibly pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery, there is one man who can be linked definitively to the digital cryptocurrency prior to its public debut. He’s a software developer who goes by the name Michael Weber, appears to be in his early 30s, and has a fondness for tight t-shirts, working out, heavily gelled hair, and sunglasses...
Abstract: The term “blockchain” has caused much confusion and damage due to its failure to accurately capture the core characteristics of decentralized byzantine fault tolerant systems. In this article, a restoration of an older term is proposed as replacement. A decade ago, on October 31 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto announced on The Cryptography Mailing List that they had been working on “a peer-to...
1. Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcointalk profile 2. HODL this is not a profile, but the topic on the forum, if you were interested in where the expression HODL came from 3. Pirateat40. As it is known Satoshi has one million bitcoins in his wallet, which still was not moving, but there is one forum member who had 500,000 bitcoins, it’s “pirateat40”, but this money was not his, as...
The Creation of Bitcoin….. New updated info 01/21/15. New info concerning a Jim McCoy concept will be added very soon. The Intro: I started going down this rabbit hole when I first started researching about the concept of bitcoin. The following information and links in this blog is where I kept going in circles for several months. I did find the answer to the mystery, but I feel each person...
During the spring of 2014, Hal Finney gave the Wall Street Journal a copy of some old emails he had received from Satoshi during January 2009. I was reading through these old emails (link) and noticed a strange comment by Satoshi in the following exchange: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Satoshi Nakamoto satoshi@vistomail.com Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:41...
Favourite Crypto News Sites:
Coindesk.com
Cryptopanic.com
Cointelegraph.com
TheMerkle.com
Favourite Crypto Discussion Sites:
Bitcointalk.org
Reddit.com/r/bitcoin
Reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency
Favourite Crypto Research sites:
Coinmarketcap.com
Coinwarz.com
CryptoCompare.com
An Instagram POD is a direct message between a group of about 15-20 people who are in a similar industry as your own. Pods’ rules vary, but essentially, whenever a user posts something new, they share that post in the direct message, and everyone in the group is required to like or comment. This enables the post to rise to the top of the user’s followers’ feeds. It’s...
Best Performing Cryptocurrency:
2009 – Bitcoin
2010 – Bitcoin
2011 – Bitcoin
2012 – Bitcoin
2013 – Quark
2014 – Fuelcoin
2015 – Rubycoin
2016 – Monero
2017 – Verge
2018 – Bitcoin SV
2019 – Molecular Future
2021 – NEM
