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Educational Byte: Bulls, Bears, and Fear Index in the Crypto Market
The crypto market is always full of excitement and anxiety. Prices can soar in the morning and tumble by the evening. These shifts...
5 Open-Source & Free Software Projects to Celebrate Christmas —And Support Via K...
GitHub is home to free and open-source projects that capture the Christmas spirit. From animated light displays and festive games...
Real Horror Stories that Urged the Creation of Crypto and P2P Systems
In the 1990s, the cypherpunks movement grew in response to the crypto wars. This was a network of technologists, activists, and cr...
How Crypto is Getting Centralized (and What We Can Do About It)
Decentralization isn’t just a fancy buzzword to sell digital products, it’s the principle that makes crypto worth trusting in the...
Educational Byte: How Fake CAPTCHAs Can Steal Your Crypto
Fake CAPTCHAs are being used to trick users into installing malware or giving away private data. A fake CAPTCHA is crafted to look...
Mt. Gox & Silk Road: How Bitcoin’s Wild Childhood Shaped our Present
The early 2010s were for crypto like the Internet’s wild frontier: no clear laws, no big investors, and certainly no NFTs. In 2011...
Cypherpunks vs Regulators: Who Reigns Over Privacy?
Privacy has always lived in tension between personal freedom and public order. Cypherpunks and other activists see it as a shield...
When Miners and Validators Go Rogue: Some Bad Cases
Most distributed ledgers have some middlemen, especially as miners and “validators,” and they can go rogue, sometimes. This means...
WannaCry: When Crypto Was on Most Screens Worldwide
The Wanna Decrypt0r virus locked computers and demanded Bitcoin to unlock them. The ransom note was one of the most recognizable c...
The Myth of “Instant Decentralization” in Crypto Networks
The word “decentralization” is used as a badge of honor in the crypto world. But there’s no such thing as instant decentralization...
When Everything Is a Token: Imagining a Fully Tokenized Economy
Tokenization means turning ownership, rights, or access into digital pieces that can move easily across crypto networks. A world w...
Educational Byte: How to Send a Message with a Crypto Transaction
The first-ever block of Bitcoin (the genesis block) will forever carry the headline of a newspaper from that day: “The Times 03/Ja...
