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Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]
"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual,...
Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]
"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to...
Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]
"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real...
Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31]
In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came...
Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha]
"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes...
Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]
"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And without anyone’s permission,...