Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation

Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin...

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Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation

Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin...

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Fighting Bitcoin spam with Bitcoin Days Destroyed

As many of you might've noticed, the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While the problem is...

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Cryptos - the anti-euro

In the light of recent banking problems in Greece, it might be interesting to revisit the ideas behind the Euro and how they hold up in the ...

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Handling bitcoins during a hard fork - pondering Bitcoin XT

As everyone might've heard by now, there is a big debate in the Bitcoin community about whether or not we should increase the block size...

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Mining versus Consensus algorithms in Crypto 2.0 systems

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs  about a topic that I haven't heard cov...

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Much ado about nothing - pondering 21Inc

In the last few months a lot of people have been talking about the "mysterious 21 Inc " - a Bitcoin startup that raised $116M in r...

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Non-fungible currencies - gold bars and art

Fungibility  is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab...

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Shipping without incentives and features

Recently I was doing some research into Factom , a new project that aims to embed a lot of data into the Bitcoin blockchain and create a ...

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Specialists, not generalists - the upcoming service fragmentation in the 2.0 world

I am a strong believer in the Crypto 2.0 space . I see the world heading towards the Singularity of Money , where the currency we transact i...

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Crypto success vs. Bitcoin success

After researching a lot of Crypto 2.0 systems ( tiny.cc/Crypto ), I started thinking about whether some systems could surpass Bitcoin. We h...

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On Eve, Plex, ISK and Bitcoin

While browsing around the Internet today I came across an article on Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson's view on Bitcoin in comparison to ISK an...

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Why fast maturing altcoins are doomed to fail, or why $30 dollars a day is not enough to secure Quarkcoin

Recently I came across Quarkcoin, a Bitcoin-based altcoin with a very fast maturation. The blocks start with 2048QRK reward and halve every ...

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On the subject of altcoins

Recently I created a FAQ/Guide for /r/Bitcoin  and I was asked to expand it by adding information on altcoins and their merits. Since such ...

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Bitcoins now has an intrinsic value!

In my previous post I discussed the subject of Bitcoin's intrinsic value vs. the intrinsic value of gold. I found a definition of an in...

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Peter Schiff and Bitcoin

Recently, Peter Schiff has been in the Bitcoin news for a series of videos and talks involving him on the topic of Bitcoin. The ones I am fa...

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