Is Bitcoin environmentally friendly?
The amount of energy that Bitcoin, especially Bitcoin mining operations, consume has been a hot-button issue since the inception of Bitcoin.
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Theory of Bitcoin: The Bitcoin Whitepaper ‘The Third Section: Timestamp Server’ key takeaways
The fifth video in the Ryan X. Charles’s Theory of Bitcoin: The Bitcoin Whitepaper series with Dr. Craig Wright takes us through the third section of the Bitcoin whitepaper which is dedicated to the timestamp server.
Bitcoin is green technology
In the face of the bull run and NFT boom, environmentalist activists have once again targeted Bitcoin’s industrial infrastructure for criticism based on the assumption that proof of work for building blocks is a waste of electricity.
Square Crypto misunderstands Bitcoin…and mythology
Inventing your own mythology to shoehorn an agenda is something else entirely: propaganda. In Square Crypto’s new “Book of Bitcoin Mythology,” they have created one such example of propaganda.
MatterPool founder Daniel Krawisz talks ‘Bitcoin’s past, present & future’ on Bitstocks podcast
Michael Hudson and Daniel Krawisz’s conversation contains several analogies to nature and how things play out in the animal kingdom, which ties back to their discussion that revolves heavily around proof-of-work, economics, and social economics.
Bitcoin: It’s all about the ledger
Bitcoin's blockchain is a supercharged accounting ledger, but at the end of the day it works much the same as any other ledger at near-light speed and on a global scale, Jon Southurst writes.
Open answers to Puru Saxena
In this piece, Kurt Wuckert Jr. tells investment commentator Puru Saxena that while he likely does not understand that the Bitcoin protocol isn’t bound to any tickers, but exists as a complete implementation on the Bitcoin SV network.
Recent SolarWinds security breach may be greater threat to humanity than COVID-19
It is likely that the recent SolarWinds hack will become known as the worst cybersecurity breach in United States history—affecting the most sensitive government networks and critical U.S. infrastructure.
New research paper claims to describe how BDos attack can cripple blockchain
Researchers at Cornell Tech and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology claim to have uncovered a fresh way to execute a denial-of-service attack (DoS) on a proof-of-work blockchain network.
Venezuelan army turns to block reward mining for money
The Venezuelan army has begun block reward mining to secure funds, in a bid to stave off the effects of economic collapse in the country.
Theory of Bitcoin: The White Paper on proof of work and the network
Bitcoin creator Dr. Craig S. Wright and Fabriik's Ryan X. Charles answer all those questions and a lot more in this latest episode of "Theory of Bitcoin - The White Paper."
Meet the new money; same as the old money, we won’t get fooled again
BitCoin gets its value similar to how gold and silver got their value, but with one very important difference, John Pitts writes.