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bitcoin
8y
A Bitcoin Compromise
There’s so much interesting work going on in the blockchain space right now that I initially didn’t want to share my 2 cents about the latest Bitcoin drama. The blocksize debate has been going on for several
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ethereum
8y
jumpman reblogged
The Investment Case for ETH
In 2015, well-known value investor Bill Miller made an investment case for BTC in his essay “The Value Investor’s Case for …Bitcoin?” Value investors are generally known to analyze assets based on cash
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protocols
8y
jumpman reblogged
Meet Sia, A User-Owned Amazon S3 Challenger That Lets You Rent Out Your Extra Disk Space
You’ve likely heard of Bitcoin. You’ve probably also heard of Ethereum, which took inspiration from Bitcoin and made significant protocol changes such as a more flexible programming language and faster
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bitcoin
8y
jumpman reblogged
Earn Anywhere with the 21 App
I’ve been waiting for a Bitcoin app to show my non-techie friends for 4+ years. It’s finally here: 21. The vast majority of people in the world would like to more efficiently manage and monetize their
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blockchain
8y
jumpman reblogged
A Tactical Guide to Investing in Blockchain Assets
Prior to Bitcoin, every tech innovation in history has put money in the pockets of an exclusive few. During the Internet boom of the late ‘90s, VCs, founders and early employees got rich from the massive
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bitcoin
8y
jumpman reblogged
Understanding Blockstream
San Francisco-based Blockstream is arguably the most important and misunderstood company in the Bitcoin world. As an engineer-driven organization, Blockstream has not communicated much externally up to
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bitcoin
8y
jumpman reblogged
What are the Future Business Models of the Consumer Web?
This week, Medium announced it is giving up on its ads driven biz model. What does the path forward look like for consumer web business models? The Internet’s original sin is advertising. Ads became the
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monero
8y
jumpman reblogged
Meet the Best Performing Digital Currency of 2016: Monero
The privacy-focused digital currency Monero was up 2760% in 2016. Is it for real or a flash in the pan? 2016 was a good year for Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two digital currencies with the most traction
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protocols
8y
jumpman reblogged
2016 Blockchain Year in Review for Casual Observers
2016 is over and there are still no mainstream use cases for Bitcoin or any other blockchain. Given how much media hype there has been since the fall of 2013 when the U.S. Congress and the Chairmain of
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blockchain
8y
jumpman reblogged
Introducing The Control
A media brand that provides the most important information on blockchains Today, we’re officially launching a new media brand called The Control to fill a gap in the blockchain ecosystem that we’ve been
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protocols
8y
jumpman reblogged
Meme markets
The proliferation of memes is one of the best consequences of the Internet. Broadly speaking a meme is an idea, typically represented as an image or video, that a group of people gets behind. The term
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blockchain
8y
jumpman reblogged
A discussion on the innovation of governance with the father of futarchy Robin Hanson
Democracy has been the gold standard in modern politics since the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, and it’s not likely to go away anytime soon. But recent events in Europe (Brexit)
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steem
8y
jumpman reblogged
Opting out
The days of one being born into the circumstances of a specific location are numbered. In medieval times, one’s location of birth dictated social class, education, occupation and everything else about
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steem
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jumpman reblogged
We need fact-based, unbiased commentary in the cryptotoken space
If we want to bring cryptotokens to more people in the world, there needs to be reliable, unbiased sources of information. We're currently lacking that right now and it's becoming increasingly apparent
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zcash
8y
jumpman reblogged
The latest experiment in tech, economics, and psychology: Zcash
Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it’s a combination of technology, economics and psychology. Satoshi got all three of these right when he created Bitcoin, and when you look at new
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steemit-hunt
8y
jumpman reblogged
Call a Trump voter, chat about issues, gain empathy
Digital currencies and politics don't go together, but we all have someone in our lives that's extreme about their politics (for me it's my father). Background Call A Deplorable (and Call An Elitist) make
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steem
8y
jumpman reblogged
Future media should be open-source, distributed, and user controlled
Angellist founder Naval Ravikant just succinctly described the way an increasing number of people are feeling about traditional social media. The benefits of an open, user-controlled protocol like Steem
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protocols
8y
jumpman reblogged
Discussing cryptotoken best practices
While the irrational ICO activity that we’ve seen lately could do some short-term damage, in the long-run the cryptotoken model can be a massive positive for the world by enabling entrepreneurs to build
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steem
8y
jumpman reblogged
Ken Bone and the power of incentives
Ken Bone became a worldwide phenomenon last night during the Presidential debate when he asked the candidates a question about energy policy. 10 years ago, Ken would have asked the question and his life
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steem
8y
jumpman reblogged
Medium vs. Steemit: How do they stack up?
I'm a user and fan of both Medium and Steemit. For the past few months, I've been picking and choosing when to post on Steemit and when to post on Medium. This week, I cross-posted on Steemit and Medium
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