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Business 4 December 2020

SHA256 and all that: The legend of Bitcoin

Today, we have this amazing new money called Bitcoin—and if you really want to understand it, just look at the word: it’s “bit” joined to “coin.”

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Editorial 2 December 2020

Commodity barter is legal—so is BitCoin

BitCoin was legal at creation; commoditizing data with protocol rules violates no laws—anymore than inventing the container, John Pitts writes.

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Tech 25 November 2020

Ethereum 2.0: Still not scalable

Ethereum filled the role of a parenthetical era in Bitcoin’s history, but has been made obsolete, and that is why Ethereum 2.0 has been in the works for years now.

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Editorial 25 November 2020

Fraud of the century?

There is only one candidate for fraud of the century, and it isn’t Dr. Craig Wright, Unbounded Capital’s Jack Laskey writes.