Bitcoin, Explained for BeginnersA shady form of payment, a speculative bubble or the future of finance? Here’s how to make sense of the news around Bitcoin.The value of Bitcoin broke all records in March 2021.The spot price to buy a bitcoin — the world’s first and most popular digital currency — briefly rose above $60,000 on March 13, 2021. (For context,...
A blockchain in 200 lines of code
The basic concept of "); text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">blockchain is quite simple: a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records. However, it is easy to get mixed up as usually when we talk about blockchains...
Why Blockchain is Hard
The hype around blockchain is massive. To hear the blockchain hype train tell it, blockchain will now:
Solve income inequality
Make all data secure forever
Make everything much more efficient and trustless
Save dying babies
What the heck is a blockchain, anyway? And can...
Why Ethereum is the Future of Blockchain
The blockchain platform with the most utility, developers and the dApp framework that is the most scalable, will win and take over the mantle from Bitcoin, as the heir apparent of blockchain innovation.
It would be hard to argue that in 2018, that’s not Ethereum. Its spawned...
