CRYPTO

Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com,

Satoshi Nakamoto had multiple insights, but the most profound may have been the use of circular logic to address an unsolved problem in the decades old field of distributed consensus.

Before Bitcoin, there was no known way to secure a permissionless system where participants were free to come and go. Nakamoto Consensus does it with incentives, the economics of which are circular.

Why is the decentralized Bitcoin network secure? Because the (more…)

Authored by Alex O'Donnell via CoinTelegraph.com,

After years of regulatory pushback and countless amended registration filings, spot Ether  exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are finally hitting the market. 

For the first time, shares of publicly-traded Ethereum (ETH) ETFs will be listed alongside the likes of Apple Inc (AAPL) and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) on some of the United States’ most popular brokerage platforms.

The anticipated listings are a defining moment for cryptocurrency markets and an opportunity for millions of US institutional and retail investors. Here’s what you need to know to make the most of it.

When will spot Ether ETFs be available?

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) confirmed July 23 as the launch date for the five ETFs assigned to trade on its platform: 21Shares Core Ethereum ETF, Fidelity Ethereum Fund, Invesco Galaxy Ethereum (more…)

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,

…and the Journey from “Notgeld” to World Reserve Currency in Under Two Decades

For a long time, anybody paying attention knew that central banks printing fiat money out of thin air, then lending it to nation states at interest and blowing it out into the economy would inexorably, eventually lead to such wealth disparity that the society would break down.

It would get to the point where popular revolts would threaten to (more…)