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Altcoins

After bitcoin came out, there have been many attempts to design crypto currencies with better the properties and functionality that bitcoin original offered. The most altcoins attempt different ways to record information with respect to: Security Speed of confirmation Other functionality Radically, Vitalik Buterin co-created Ethereum which provides blockchain-based distributed computing platform. Whilst some would… Read More »

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Blockchain

A blockchain is often referred to in cryptocurrencies as a ledger.

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Digital scarcity

Richard Gendal Brown wrote: Adam Back described the idea of “digital scarcity”. That is: how to create a system that allows you to make objects in the digital world “scarce”. The obvious intuition here is to think of .mp3 files. If I email one to you, it hasn’t been transferred, it has been duplicated and… Read More »

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