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TechCrunch

100 cryptocurrencies described in four words or less

TechCrunch
3 min read · From 2017 · This list describes cryptocurrencies. Each gets four words. There are many. Some are landmarks. Some are scams. Hopefully this provides orientation.
Reader View · Shared by 583, including Fabricio Teixeira, Thomas Power, Merkstatt, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC, Stefan Steiner, Mario Camou, Dez S. Papp, Carl Morris, Weiting Chen, Ha Duong, Nicolas Berg, Francesco Forconi, Oleg Baskov, Gio Tiongson, Amaury Martiny, von Moerenburgh, Azeem Azhar, Michael R. Nall, Bram Kanstein, Balaji Srinivasan
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medium.com

Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five

medium.com
7 min read · From 2014 · If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is…
Reader View · Shared by 574, including David Butler, kp 🇺🇦, Ryan Boren, Mark Kaigwa, Nils Hitze, Jameson Lopp, Vincenzo Tremonte, Kris Fannin, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Andreas Spiegler, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Martin Rajcan 🇺🇦🕊, Simon Wüthrich, Carl Morris, Nick Lüthi, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Vinny Lingham, k, Thomas Power, Merkstatt
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HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology

WTF is The Blockchain?

HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
~14 min read · From 2017 · The terms “bitcoin” and “blockchain” flooded headlines after the value of the cryptocurrency more than tripled in the fourth quarter of 2017. But if you are not a currency trader or a technology expert, chances are you may not be fully familiar with their underlying concepts. Mohit Mamoria, the CEO of cryptofund Authorito, helps laypeople understand blockchain in this easy-to-follow blog post on Medium.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 568, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Marcus Kuhn, getAbstract, Helmi, AJ Ghergich, Andreas Von Gunten, Chris Roth, Thomas Power, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC, Carl Morris, David Smooke, Zain Fathoni, Cyrill Schmid, Liv 😷, von Moerenburgh, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Taylor Pearson, L. Taylor Banks, Howard Getson
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Harvard Business Review

How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume?

Harvard Business Review
7 min read · 2021-05-05 · It’s a trickier question than you might think.
Reader View · Shared by 559, including Jon Tirsen, John Nosta, Caitlin Moran, Richard MacManus, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Dietrich Inocencio, Timothy Taylor, Tim Hayden, David Andolfatto, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, jason ball, Kyle Bunch, Maria Bustillos, Neeraj K. Agrawal, John Koetsier, 👨‍✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, LARRY ELKAN
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there’s an important distinction between how much energy a system consumes and how much carbon it emits.
Popular Science

A beginner’s guide to how cryptocurrencies work

Popular Science
8 min read · 2021-11-15 · For those who are just wading into the crypto territory, here’s a basic explainer on how the computer science behind these systems work.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 552, including MIT CSAIL, getAbstract
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Whether you’re on the head or tail end of the cryptocurrency craze, one thing is for sure: These digital assets are hitting the mainstream hard, and don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Notably, the country of El Salvador recently adopted bitcoin as legal tender, and New York’s incoming mayor Eric Adams is intent on transforming New York City into a hotspot for cryptocurrency. 
Stratechery

The Great Bifurcation

Stratechery
~11 min read · 2021-12-14 · Tracing the evolution of tech’s three eras, and why the fourth era — the Metaverse — is defined by its bifurcation with the physical world.
Reader View · Shared by 546, including Ross Dawson, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Ryan Singer, dunschtig, Scott Monty, Jonathan Kogan, Patrick Scheuerer, William Toll
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How much better if every account were based on a digital identifier unique to me and owned by no one, and now you understand the case for crypto wallets.
Scott Galloway

Web3 | No Mercy / No Malice

Scott Galloway
8 min read · Jan 15th · I didn’t anticipate how much I’d appreciate a @Jack of fewer trades. Key to progress is class traitors: Generals warning of a military-industrial complex, product managers who narc on mendacious…
Reader View · Shared by 542, including Katja Evertz, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Leif & Direkt, Chris Messina, Ryan Carson, Vala Afshar, Jonathan Kogan, Katie Dill, Gergely Orosz, Gerd Leonhard, Bob Sutton, Harold Jarche, Jansnet, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID
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Web3 is a decentralized version of the internet where platforms and apps are built and owned by users. Unlike web2 (the current web), which is dominated by centralized platforms such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, web3 will use blockchain, crypto, and NFTs to transfer power back to the internet community.
WIRED

‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin

WIRED
20+ min read · From 2017 · Veteran tech journalist Mark Frauenfelder tries everything, including hypnosis, to recover a small fortune from a locked bitcoin device.
Summary · Shared by 532, including Harpreet Singh, FANZO 🧢 NFT 365, Brad Brooks, Thomas Power, Andreas Kubli, Helmi, jean marc manach, FactorDaily, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy ⛱, Howard Getson, Christopher Allen, k, Mike Davidson, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Paulmears, L. Taylor Banks, Klaus Eck, Vinny Lingham, getAbstract
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The Verge

Blockchain, explained

The Verge
~19 min read · 2021-09-09 · A look at the tech behind NFTs and crypto
Reader View · Shared by 528, including Mauro Toselli, Brian Ahier, Mark Buccella, Christo Meid, Stephan Woodtli, Real Marsha Wright®, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Terence Mills, yeon, Jonathan Kogan, AI, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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there’s an unwritten rule that says you can never stop talking about being in the club.
IEEE Spectrum

Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World

IEEE Spectrum
From 2017 · The technology behind Bitcoin could touch every transaction you ever make
Reader View · Shared by 520, including Oleg Baskov, Justin Cranshaw, Dominik Grolimund, Carlo Badini, Dez S. Papp, Patrick Scheuerer, kp 🇺🇦, Merkstatt, Ilia Markov, Katja Evertz, Daniel Lawniczak, Matthias Lampe, Walid Ark, Pinei, Mihai M, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Azeem Azhar, Marcus Kuhn, Thomas Power, Marco Unternaehrer
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a16z

The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks

a16z
~15 min read · 2021-12-18 · In the future, it’s likely that the average person will not work for a company. Instead, people will earn income in non-traditional ways by taking actions such as playing games, learning new skills,…
Reader View · Shared by 474, including Chris Messina, Ines Bieler, Alyssa C, Christian Hartmann, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Pleil, Matt Schlicht, Andrew Spence, Sergio Caredda, yeon
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DAOs as open economies will power the X-to-earn trend, which will make work more flexible, fluid, and playful than the 9-5s we are accustomed to.
NPR's Planet Money

The 'Strange, Unduly Neglected Prophet'

NPR's Planet Money
6 min read · From 2019 · Meet Silvio Gesell, who inspired a worldwide movement to create money that expired. After nearly a century of obscurity, he's making a comeback.
Reader View · Shared by 474, including Emin Gün Sirer🔺, Matthias Lampe, Marcos, Ward Plunet, ahg, 瑞拿頭
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