Do you remember the once popular way for new startups to raise funds that didn't need venture capital -- which was highly selective because of the return on investment? It was known as the initial coin offering (ICO). Initial coin offering offers investors with units of crypto-tokens in the forms of Ethereum and Bitcoin. Some... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3: Episode 7 – The Birth of Altcoins
Guys! It's been a long time since doing one of these, and it's probably because I fell a bit out of the system. However, I'm back and I'm giving you some information in terms of the other altcoins. Lots of this information I came across was both interesting and head-scratching. Within a couple of years... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3: Episode 6 – Digicash & The Miracle of Bitcoin
Why Crypto Sometimes the word crypto makes people shudder, perhaps because they associate it with illicit activity, but that's a mental bias that is important to overcome. Crypto is simply a tip of the hat and a shortening of the key technology underlying these systems: cryptography. As discussed, it's the science of securely transmitting data so that... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3: Episode 5 – The Taxonomy of Cryptoassets
As I was saying in the last blog, bitcoin had a hell of a spike in November of 2013, capturing the attention of the People's Bank of China, which then slapped restrictions on bitcoin's use. Shortly after, FBI captured the creator of the Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, and then the collapse of the biggest exchange... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3 – Episode 4 – Scammers on Apple’s App Store & The Beginning of bitcoin
Scammers: Apple's App Store Compromised So, it's been probably a week + since I've done a podcast, but I've been monitoring a lot of news and it's getting a little crazy in the crypto world. Almost every week passes by and there are scams everywhere, which is why I'm telling people to hold back until... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3 – Episode 3 – The Birth of Bitcoin
Financial markets, as said in my last post, took the heaviest losses in United States History. However, somewhere in the world was this many Satoshi formalizing what's going to take the world by storm. A day after publishing that white paper, Satoshi sent an email called "The Cryptography Mailing List". He later wrote: "you will... Continue Reading →
Cryptoassets: Season 3 – Episode 2 – Satoshi Nakamoto & 2008 Financial Crisis
Welcome back to another Crypto blog and I first want to talk about this financial crisis on a scale you've never heard. The amount of collapses that happened through banks and private companies in 2008 is UNHEARD of. Let's kick this off with Satoshi, Satoshi Nakamoto. No on ein the world knows who he is. ... Continue Reading →
Season 3: Episode 1 – Cryptoassets – Intro Part II
Just like most people thought the plane, cars, and everything that was technologically advanced (at the time) would fail -- they were wrong. The same was with the author of this book. He was convinced that Bitcoin would fail when it debut almost a decade ago. Somewhere on the internet is him railing against Bitcoin... Continue Reading →
Season 3: New Book Series! Cryptoassets!
It's been an absolute long time coming! I was thinking about it while walking up and down the aisles of the bookstore at the shopping plaza where I work. I asked people and my content writer some questions about what book should I dissect next. Over the past few years, I've gone over a lot... Continue Reading →
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