Argo, DMG Blockchain Join Group Promoting Bitcoin Mining Decarbonization

The debate around bitcoin mining’s energy consumption has long caused misunderstandings about the technology, but it has ramped up recently, as highlighted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent statements. However, while bitcoin mining is based on energy consumption, a large shift toward renewables is taking place through initiatives like this partnership and others. …Read the […]

Bitcoin, Hierarchy And Territory

Some helped me understand the world and human beings better , while others helped reinforce the formers’ ideas by either consistently contradicting themselves, introducing ridiculous ideas of their own or just regurgitating things others have said but completely out of context, thus exhibiting no understanding at all. So today… as an homage to Jordan’s work, […]

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High As Second Taproot Signaling Period Begins

That was necessary because, with fewer miners online, less hash rate was being employed on the network, and blocks took much longer than the 10-minute mining interval target, per Glassnode data. As miners started getting back online in the last couple of weeks, the network’s hash rate increased simultaneously. After the newest Bitcoin Core software […]

A Privacy Standard In Bitcoin, And How It Will Protect Bitcoin Users

When a new user buys bitcoin using a regulated, know your customer is being provided to his local government. This is obviously dangerous, especially if you live under an authoritarian government. This calls for a privacy standard in Bitcoin: Where a majority of wallets enable privacy features by default, making it much harder for chain […]

Why Anthropologists Are More Interested In Bitcoin Than Economists

Anthropology is a social science that is concerned with understanding culture through participatory observation, or ethnography: cultural immersion in the social worlds being studied. This might explain why anthropologists often end up in heated debates with economists, who instead understand the world through numeric aggregates and abstract models. In contrast, anthropology, which involves both deductive […]