"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”,...
"With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially millions...
It's often said that Bitcoin is too limited, that you can't build anything interesting on top of the Bitcoin chain... what if that was...