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Fast-forward to 2016 and we’ve entered into a world no longer dominated by tools, but by machines. The crucial difference between a tool and a machine is that the former relies on human energy, while and the latter relies on non-human energy channelled via a system that replicates - and accentuates - the action of a human using a tool. The carpenter is now a furniture corporation using computer-programmed CNC cutters. Likewise, the bank that keeps score of that company’s money runs humming datacentres with vast account databases. These are digital equivalents of the old ledger books, drawing upon fossil-fuel generated electricity to write and hold information as magnetised atoms on hard-drives.
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Many are looking to the blockchain to solve many decentralization and consensus problems. I believe the infrastructure people are seeking…
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The Bitcoin system—like the normal bank payments system—is intended to move monetary tokens between people through the changing of account entries on databases, but it has two immediate differences. First, the database that is used to record payments between people is public, rather than the privately held account databases of the normal banking system. Second, the intermediaries that change that database are a decentralized network of people (“miners”) running special Bitcoin software, rather than banks running their own private software systems.1
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http://swarmbot.io helps you contribute to projects and receive project coins. Project coins are crypto equity / royalty tokens issued as colored coins on th...
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Introducing "Ledger" - A peer-reviewed scholarly journal on cryptocurrency and #blockchain & #bitcoin technology https://t.co/gPO71KSVgU...
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Countries in the EU are reportedly planning to crackdown on virtual currencies such as bitcoin in an attempt to tackle the financing of terrorism.
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Although there's a 0 percent chance of the US Congress enacting universal basic income, techies have launched their own DIY basic income schemes through the distribution of online currencies like Bitcoin.
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CoinTelegraph spoke to William Thomas, the founder of the UK’s recently launched CryptoMate exchange, who explained why decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges could be the future
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Developed by Grantcoin Foundation, Grantcoin is the first cryptocurrency developed to distribute grants for socially responsible businesses.
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Ever since we at CryptoArticles have heard of SWARM, we have been avid followers of the company and the developments. We also met with a lot of people involved
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A Stanford professor claims to have invented a Bitcoin-like system that can handle payments faster and with more security.
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In 2008, Enric Duran stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from European banks to start a progressive hacktivist commune. Nathan Schneider traveled to Catalonia to meet the man, who is still on the run from the authorities.
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We’re starting a new cryptocurrency and we don’t want it to be used as currency. Oxymoron? Not at all. Blockchain technology goes far…
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On the convergence of the blockchain and the commons, with the blockchain as the new institutional technology that makes the commons scale.
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The possibilities for innovation are near limitless with OpenLedger offering the option for each and every user to add their own Coin by creating simple IOU's, SmartCoins that are backed with real-world collateral and/or deploy their own...
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I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hu…
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Article: Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains. By Melanie Swan. Interesting take that does not necessarily a right-libertarian approach to blockchain technology. Here is the summary followed by two excerpts. Summary: “There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of …
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every node controls their own taxeme and what tax-rate it uses. taxemes are inherited per transaction. inherited taxemes last until someone else inherits it. each node is taxed using the lowest taxeme it carries. taxemes collapse when they return to the originator.
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We messed up when we built the internet. I’m not talking about Javascript. Despite the web’s fantastically successful decentralized headless nature — the first internet protocols did not bake some key features in to the protocol layer cake. The missing features are distributed user accounts, data storage, and asset ownership tracking.
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Activists can improve their alternative media success by embracing alternative currencies like Bitcoin.
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Litecoin is often referred to as "the silver to Bitcoin's gold." But what is Litecoin, and how does it compare to its more famous counterpart?
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Digital cryptocurrencies—including bitcoin and litecoin, along with dozens of others—have struggled to win mainstream acceptance in the U.S. Interest in this so-called “Internet money” is not going away, however, which is why regulators are developing rules that that they hope can avert a repeat of last year’s Mt. Gox meltdown, when the world’s largest bitcoin exchange unexpectedly shut down after losing hundreds of thousands of bitcoins in a cyber attack.
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