“A concern I always had with precious metals ETFs, is that there is about fifty times as much theoretical gold in the world as physical gold.” -Andrew Craig, in the book ‘How to Own The World’.
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Have you ever wondered how proof of work (the mechanism by which new blocks are added to Bitcoin – a.k.a ‘mining’) solves the Byzantine Generals Problem? Well, who better to try to explain this than the creator of Bitcoin himself: Satoshi Nakamoto. Interestingly, everything Satoshi Nakamoto wrote is recorded for posterity on a website called […]
There’s a lot to appreciate looking back at all the various things Satoshi Nakamoto (the creator of Bitcoin) wrote in emails, mailing lists, and forums (and boy did he write quite a bit). If you happen to already understand Bitcoin you’ll quickly see some of the early-thinking-brilliance of Satoshi in many of the below quotes, […]
“Can you define ‘blockchain’? I think a few people in this room could define blockchain, but the real challenge would be can you define ‘blockchain’ in such a way that I can’t do search and replace with the word ‘database’ and still make that sentence work.” -Andreas Antonopolous, in the YouTube video ‘Blockchain vs. Bullshit: […]