What Is Proof-of-Work?
Proof-of-work is the blockchain-based algorithm that secures many cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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What Is XRP, and How Is It Related to Ripple?
XRP is a digital asset and cryptocurrency issued and partly managed by Ripple, a payment solutions company.
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What Is a CBDC?
A CBDC is a central bank digital currency, a new type of money governments are experimenting with that often has blockchain at its core.
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What Is Sharding?
"Sharding" is a proposed method of splitting Ethereum's infrastructure into smaller pieces in an attempt to scale the network.
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ENCORE: Luke Gromen on the History and (Declining) Future of the Global Dollar System
As some start to wonder about a post-Bretton Woods economic system, macro analyst Luke Gromen explains how that post-World War II system came to be.
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Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)
Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets that require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.
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How the World Stopped Producing Enough Money, Feat. Emil Kalinowski
In a year when the popular narrative says money printing went crazy, the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University” says the problem is actually too little money.
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A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.
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Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)
A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase.
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Self-Sovereign Identity Explained
Heard the phrase "self-sovereign identity"? Here is what it means and how it could change your experience of the internet.
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