Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum's initial release, published an essay entitled "What Does Ether At $100 Mean?" Since then it has doubled. Too many altcoins to name have skyrocketed in value along with the Big Two. ICOs are raking in money hand over fist over bicep. What the hell is going on?
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We are witnessing the early stages of a technological revolution, with blockchain at its core—a shift as impactful as the advent of the internet.
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
The price of Ether, a bitcoin rival, is soaring because of a radical, $150 million experiment
Thousands of people have pumped $150 million into what might be the biggest crowdfunded project in history, something called the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Compare this to the $20 million raised by the project with the most funds on Kickstarter, the Pebble Time smartwatch. The strange thing about this crowdfunding is that the DAO doesn’t produce any concrete products or services–not yet, anyway.
Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon
Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.
Trust: the inside story of the rise and fall of Ethereum | Aeon Essays
Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There’s just one problem: trust
I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to learn to love the blockchain | TechCrunch
I apologize. I get it. You hear "blockchain" and you immediately think "shady get-rich-quick schemes" or "bubble of magical fake Internet money" or
The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising
The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising By Izzy Otomakan Follow @cryptoizzy I recognize the irony that barely a few months afte...
The crypto alternative | TechCrunch
Suppose, just for a moment, just for argument's sake, that (some) cryptocurrencies are not a giant scam, and what's more, they're not just another kind of
I Was Wrong About Bitcoin. Here’s Why. (Published 2017)
Our columnist predicted in 2013 that Bitcoin, then a new digital currency, would soon die. He points to five assumptions he got wrong.
Open Source Money will BUIDL the Open Source Ecosystem
The blockchain revolution is growing open source
Stellar | Making Blockchain Technology Real: Why We're Giving Away Lumens
This giveaway design will test Stellar.org’s hypothesis: there are people in the bitcoin community who will realize the potential of distributed ledgers.
Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It's Taking Over the World
25 years after Linus Torvalds unveiled Linux, the free operating system is still finding new uses.
DDC Enterprise buys 200 bitcoin in first 2026 treasury move
Shares climb more than 5% in pre-market trading as the company reinforces long term Bitcoin strategy.
Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial
As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows
"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/
Bridging on a budget
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Yes, I know. Not a lot of love for what has happened to blockchains, but it's not all bad.
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