Category: Op-Ed
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Op-ed: The Case for Adding CTOR to Bitcoin Cash in November
The following opinion piece on Canonical Transaction Ordering (CTOR) was written by Jonald Fyookball the lead developer of Electron Cash. Canonical Transaction Ordering (“CTOR”) is one of the planned changes for the November 2018 Bitcoin Cash protocol upgrade. There has been quite a bit of discussion in the Bitcoin Cash community about this change. Also…
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A Decade After Lehman Brothers Died: Mises, Satoshi, Bitcoin, and Wall Street Worship
September 15, 2018 brings the post-industrial financial world to a ten-year milestone. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was officially shuttered on this day in 2008, rocking the entire planet. The event occurred just 110 days before a revolution its collapse helped to spawn: Bitcoin. A little-known economic philosopher, Ludwig von Mises, tried to warn many years ahead…
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Bitcoin Cash Can Scale Exponentially and Support the Global Economy
For well over a year now the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol has shown quite a bit of capability as far as on-chain scaling is concerned. The creator of Bitcoin knew that the technology had to expand in scale quite vastly in order to accept the magnitude of global commerce and businesses on the blockchain. In…
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Do You Have What it Takes to Write Op-Ed Articles for Bitcoin.com?
We will now accept regular op-ed article submissions for the bitcoin.com news page. We want to provide crypto-enthusiasts, idea-mongers, futurists, and iconoclasts an opportunity to share their notions with the world. We currently receive about 2.5 million page-views per month, and my hope is to inspire the crypto-intelligentsia within our community to produce brilliant articles.…
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Start a Business – Do Not Ask for Permission, Skip the Bank Account
Doing business, relying on your own abilities and talents to make a living, shouldn’t be so hard to start. But unlike the times when almost everyone was a farmer, a craftsman, a merchant, basically a businessman, in today’s realities overreaching state regulations, initial capital needs, unhealthy competition from the bigwigs in an industry, often present…
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Tokenized Securities: The Next Boom
The following opinion piece on token-as-securities was written by Benjamin Pirus, a crypto trader who has written many articles for different ICOs, crypto news outlets, and clients. 2017 was a special year in many ways. Not often in life are there opportunities to invest in an asset and see a profit increase of 1000% (or higher) in…
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The Nakamoto Imperative: Why We Have to Build a Decentralist Culture
The following opinion piece on building a decentralist culture was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social Singularity. Some people have made good money buying and trading tokens. And on net, that’s a good thing. Whether you’re a trader or lucky hodler, you’re contributing to human progress. But it’s…
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Tired of Bank Bailouts and Hyperinflation? Bitcoin Offers Something Different
People often wonder why a cryptocurrency with a limited supply like bitcoin has been gaining traction over the years. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s central banks have printed around $12-30 trillion worth of promissory notes, and more than $10 trillion in negative-yielding global bonds. However instead of the newly printed money helping global…
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Proof-of-Stake is a Rebranded Version of the Old Financial System
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of projects, both public and private, that are attempting to create a next-generation blockchain or something better than Satoshi’s Bitcoin. A great majority of these projects have condemned proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies because they think they waste resources, and many of these new blockchains have chosen to…
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Blockchain, Reloaded: How the New “Matrix” Appeared
The following opinion piece on blockchain technology was written by Alexander Borodich, CEO Universa.io, futurologist, and Forbes contributor Just like any other phenomenon that happened to be in the public eye or the subject of hype, the blockchain has been fleshed out with legends and interpretations and they are often far separated from reality. Many…