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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)

Unlike Bitcoin, Litecoin or Ethereum, which exist as decentralized systems independent of their development teams, you can’t talk about XRP without talking about Ripple Labs. They’re one and the same. They’re perhaps the first among the centralized coins, with all the positives and negatives that come from that. More negatives than positives—but we’ll get to… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)

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The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

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The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)

Polkadot is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform that lets the blockchains built on top of it, which are called parachains and something we’ll get into indepth in a bit, conduct transactions between themselves. This creates what they call a interconnected internet of blockchains. It comes with two goals: providing shared security among all of their… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)

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Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)

Cryptocurrency has a number of different problems and one of them is that it’s not even remotely private. Transparency is baked into the system for most coins. Anyone can see what’s happening right now on Bitcoin’s blockchain by going to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and after a search and a few clicks, you can find out what’s going… Read More »Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)

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Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)

Cryptocurrency has a number of different problems and one of them is that it’s not even remotely private. Transparency is baked into the system for most coins. Anyone can see what’s happening right now on Bitcoin’s blockchain by going to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and after a search and a few clicks, you can find out what’s going… Read More »Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)

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The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency

We need to talk about cryptocurrency’s carbon problem. Right now the Bitcoin network alone gobbles up more power than the entire nation of Sweden. That’s a big network. It spits a new block reward of 6.25 bitcoin every ten minutes, each worth approximately $61,568.60 at the time of writing, and Bitcoin is presently down a… Read More »The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency

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