9 Best Articles in 2020
TNW
The ultimate, 3500-word, plain English guide to blockchain
TNW
~12 min read · 794 saves · From 2017 · 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…
The New York Times
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
The New York Times
694 saves · From 2018 · Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for digital cash could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
HackerNoon
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
HackerNoon
~17 min read · 665 saves · From 2017 · Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after…
VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
VICE
10 min read · 621 saves · From 2017 · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring.
medium.com
You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real
medium.com
7 min read · 617 saves · From 2017 · Bitcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble…
TechCrunch
100 cryptocurrencies described in four words or less
TechCrunch
3 min read · 564 saves · From 2017 · This list describes cryptocurrencies. Each gets four words. There are many. Some are landmarks. Some are scams. Hopefully this provides orientation.
medium.com
Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
medium.com
7 min read · 562 saves · From 2014 · If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is…
HackerNoon
WTF is The Blockchain?
HackerNoon
~14 min read · 536 saves · From 2017 · Mohit Mamoria · The terms “bitcoin” and “blockchain” flooded headlines after the value of the cryptocurrency more than tripled in the fourth quarter of 2017. But if…
WIRED
‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin
WIRED
20+ min read · 516 saves · From 2017 · Veteran tech journalist Mark Frauenfelder tries everything, including hypnosis, to recover a small fortune from a locked bitcoin device.
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Forbes
These Young Investors Are Still Betting Big On Crypto — And Are Taking Harvard And Stanford Along…
Forbes
9 min read · 62 saves · Oct 18th · An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate. But Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang aim to do more…
a16z
Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups
a16z
20+ min read · 41 saves · Oct 11th · Chris Dixon, Elad Gil, and Sep Kamvar trace the path of forces driving innovation, where they stand today, and how they are converging.
Cointelegraph
Crypto banks are going to swallow fiat banks in 3 years — or even less
Cointelegraph
3 min read · 40 saves · Oct 10th · In three years, a younger generation of banking customers won’t do business with a traditional fiat bank unless it offers access to crypto.
Finextra
PayPal to support cryptocurrencies across its consumer and merchant network
Finextra
25 saves · Oct 21st · PayPal has been granted a first of its kind conditional Bitlicense by the New York State Department of Financial Services and will begin enabling…
CoinDesk
IMF, World Bank, G7 Countries to Create Central Bank Digital Currency Rules
CoinDesk
2 min read · 24 saves · Oct 13th · Ada Hui · The United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan will institute national digital currency banking standards with the International Monetary Fund and World…
Forbes
Stone Ridge Reveals $115 Million Bitcoin Investment As Part Of Billion-Dollar Spin-Off
Forbes
5 min read · 22 saves · Oct 13th · A new bitcoin giant has emerged on the cryptocurrency scene. After three years of silence, the mysterious Stone Ridge spin-off revealed it raised over…
Cointelegraph
Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1 trillion in one year
Cointelegraph
1 min read · 21 saves · Oct 23rd · The rise of DeFi and stablecoins has put Ethereum on-course to become the first blockchain to process $1 trillion in transactions over a calendar…
The Block
Report: PayPal is looking to acquire crypto companies, BitGo named as potential target
The Block
21 saves · Oct 22nd · A new report from Bloomberg indicates that payments giant PayPal is shopping for possible acquisitions in the crypto space.
Cointelegraph
Five mega exchanges hold 10% of Bitcoin's entire supply
Cointelegraph
20 saves · Oct 15th · Coinbase is currently custodying more than 5% of circulating BTC ... which doesn’t seem all that decentralized when you think about it.
CoinDesk
Ethereum 2.0's Composability Concerns, Explained
CoinDesk
5 min read · 20 saves · Oct 13th · Brady Dale · Will composability work as well on Ethereum 2.0 as it does now on the original version of the world computer?
