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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., speaks during a delivery ceremony for Tesla Model S sedan in Beijing.
Business 13 April 2022

Elon Musk decides not to join the Twitter board—why?

After purchasing 9.2% stake in Twitter, Elon Musk was offered a seat on the board for a term lasting until 2024, but he has decided not to accept, leading to speculations on what he might be up to.

Pepe the frog in a casino setup
Editorial 12 April 2022

Bitcoin 2022 Miami: The ‘best’ BTC app?

Nothing takes place on BTC that turns investor dollars into revenue-generating goods and services since the only thing BTC sells—besides speculation—are dreams and narratives.

Macro shot of Bitcoin on motherboard
Tech 12 April 2022

Taro and Taproot—just empty carbs

A recently published article by an anonymous author is seemingly aimed to promote the new "scaling solution" proposal on the Lightning network BTC.

Close up view of golden bitcoin in black keyboard
Tech 7 April 2022

Security, the blockchain, and hashed headers…

Bitcoin uses a binary tree structure to collapse a huge set of transactions into an easily searchable path, which is only necessary when millions or billions of transactions are included in a block.

Bitcoin Cryptocurrency mining on Circuit Board Blockchain
Tech 6 April 2022

Economic implications of big block Bitcoin

The current innovation of ASIC miners to make hashing as powerful as possible while efficient as possible is not accounting for a scenario of fee income rising.

Twitter page for Elon Musk
Business 6 April 2022

Elon Musk buys into Twitter, world braces for Doge maximalism

It’s unclear whether Musk sincerely desires to improve Twitter to preserve ‘democracy’ or whether he simply believes that buying a major stake will allow him to tweet whatever he likes without fear that he’ll be struck off the platform.

Ethereum
Tech 5 April 2022

Attempts to scaling Ethereum in 3 different ways

In this article, Jerry Chan explores each of the three strategies in scaling Ethereum and why none will achieve the intended goal, as none addressed the lack of scalability of the layer 1 blockchain.

Infinite
Editorial 2 April 2022

Infinite and unbounded

Turing completeness does not require an infinite tape, and it was not an infinite tape that Turing mentioned in his paper; it was an unbounded system.

Mobile phone with webpage of American technology company Ripple Labs Inc. on screen in front of logo. Focus on top-left of phone displa
Business 1 April 2022

BTC v Ripple in proof-of-climate-change dust-up

The co-founder of ‘crypto’ token/commodity Ripple wants BTC to shift to a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism, apparently because he believes the hobbled BTC tech is still not hobbled enough.