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medium.com
Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
7 min · · If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is… · Shared by 599, including Carl Morris, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Ryan Boren, Mark Kaigwa, Nils Hitze, Jameson Lopp, Nico Luchsinger, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Simon Wüthrich, kp, k, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, David Butler, Andreas Spiegler, Kris Fannin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Vinny Lingham, Martin Rajcan, Thomas Power, Jean-Patrick
VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
10 min · · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring. · Shared by 753, including Philipp.Herkelmann, Alex Barrera, tjalve, Nils Hitze, Thomas Power, John Battelle, Ryan Boren, Richard Joerges, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, MariadPDC, Dez S. Papp, Dominik Grolimund, Nicolas Berg, Paulmears, Massimiliano Aroffo, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Ward Plunet, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
18+ min · · Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after… · Shared by 720, including Thomas Power, David Smooke, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Alex Barrera, Mike Butcher, Alf Rehn, Azeem Azhar, Michael Seemann, Martin Stabe, Nicolas Berg, Weiting Chen, ErmanTaylan.eth, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Nico Lumma, Andreas Kubli, Stefan T, Howard Getson, Martin Steiger 🦈, Nouriel Roubini
TechCrunch
Mapping the blockchain project ecosystem
11+ min · · It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees without a comprehensive view of what the proverbial forest looks like. As a result, here's a compiled a list of.. · Shared by 614, including Tris Hussey, Nico Lumma, Jose Paul Martin, Daniel Benchimol, Katja Evertz, Ilia Markov, Bjoern Negelmann, Nicolas Martinod, Martin Rajcan, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Power, Parin Vachhani, Rezha Julio, Paulmears, Patrick Scheuerer, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Mark Kaigwa, Oleg Baskov, Edney Souza 🧙♂️, Howard Getson
The New York Times
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
· Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for digital cash could wind up building something much more important than wealth. · Shared by 740, including Dan Ariely, tjalve, Martin Rajcan, FinTech Connector, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Anthony Hamelle, Nicolas Berg, Nir Eyal, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Ha Duong, Patrick Scheuerer, Hans van Gent, Ricky Yean, Nico Lumma, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Vinny Lingham, Ste Davies, Thomas Power, cdixon.eth
cdixon.eth
Why Decentralization Matters
8 min · · Centralized platforms have been dominant for so long that many people have forgotten there is a better way to build internet services. · Shared by 897, including Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Bram Kanstein, hansi_voigt, ERIC KIM, Stefan T, Jonathan Frye, Alex Barrera, Taylor Pearson, Vinny Lingham, Chris Messina, Ryan Hoover, Rodrigo Prior, Thomas Power, Zain Fathoni, Tim Herbig, Alexia Bonatsos, Klaus Eck, Benedict Evans, Hugo Amsellem
medium.com
Blockchain Project Ecosystem
11+ min · · Market Map and Musings on the State of the Ecosystem · Shared by 757, including Klaus Eck, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Taylor Pearson, Thomas Power, k, Jonathan Kogan, Philip Stehlik, Nico Lumma, fernand0, Gideonro, von Moerenburgh, Mathias Böhm, Hugo Amsellem, Tris Hussey, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Vinny Lingham, Parin Vachhani, Chris Messina, Raul Tiru 🌎, Richard Joerges
TNW
The ultimate, 3500-word, plain English guide to blockchain
13+ min · · Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin and blockchain. After all, they are one of the most trending topics these days — the ultimate buzzwords of the year. Even… · Shared by 896, including Jon Thompson, Andrew Cunning, Katja Evertz, Howard Getson, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Nicolas Berg, Charlie Oliver, Sara Usinger, René Clausen Nielsen, Bjorn Larsen, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Helmi, k, Roger Friedensen, Marco Unternaehrer, Lorenz König, Oleg Baskov
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
20+ min · · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race… · Shared by 1398, including Daniel Boos, Josh Elman, Nico Lumma, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Mike Butcher, Casey Smith, Bill Widmer, Mathew Ingram, Hugo Amsellem, Ryan Hoover, Tristan Harris, DHH, Jane, Gerd Leonhard, John Battelle, Chris Messina, Charlie Oliver, Rf, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
20+ min · · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all. · Shared by 1227, including Jane, Helmut Adam, Armindo Ferreira, Chris Messina, Azeem Azhar, OM, Adrienne Fichter, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Rodrigo Prior, Gerd Leonhard, Frederic Filloux, Mathew Ingram, Rico Grimm, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Joan Lockwood, Zain Fathoni, Howard Getson, Thomas Power, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer.
The Guardian
What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense
5 min · · Inspirational quotes of dubious provenance are just one of the ways in which social media sells a warped vision of ‘living fully’ · Shared by 203, including Mark Kaigwa, Rich, Gianluca Diegoli, Thomas Power, Fern, Liliane Ferrari ™, Fabricio Teixeira, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Lukas Stickelberger
nature
Information gerrymandering in social networks skews collective decision-making
4 min · · Network rewiring can alter perception of others’ voting intentions. · Shared by 132, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Eric Topol, CyberCodeTwins, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Joanna J Bryson, Liam Bright, Jochen Burkhard, Guy Longworth, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ines Bieler, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Carl Zimmer, Emin Gün Sirer🔺, Mark Kaigwa, blinch, Faik Ersoy, Chris Isak, Christopher Allen
medium.com
A most peaceful revolution
20+ min · · Bitcoin is a slow-burning but potent nonviolent rebellion. · Shared by 156, including Jameson Lopp, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Power, Oleg Baskov, Ryan Selkis 🪳, notsofast, Matthias Lampe, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, 瑞拿頭, Jon Matonis
The Guardian
France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
2 min · · Finance minister warns monetary sovereignty of governments could be at risk · Shared by 258, including Chris Gledhill, Charles Baldwin, Yvette Dubel, Bjorn Larsen, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Forbes
Alibaba, Tencent, Five Others To Receive First Chinese Government Cryptocurrency
6 min · · As global central banks grapple with Facebook’s plans to create a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin but backed with traditional currency, sources say China is taking a big lead with plans to disperse… · Shared by 273, including Erik Voorhees, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Power, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Gerrit Eicker, Luke Martin, Chris Gledhill, Oliver Bussmann
avc
Some Thoughts On Crypto
2 min · · The crypto sector is in an interesting phase right now. The market has rallied from its lows this past winter and is up a lot in 2019: But Bitcoin now makes up almost 70% of that aggregate market cap.… · Shared by 313, including Thomas Power, Meltem Demirors, Sachin Rekhi, Gerrit Eicker, Tuur Demeester, Fred Wilson, Semil, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA