Category: BitCoin

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Why Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) Matters to BitCoin

Over the last week, we have seen much debate all over social media about Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) and how it should be implemented. Read on to find out more.

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The ‘Battle Royale of Crypto’ Debate: Who’s Right, Who Wasn’t

Craig Wright and Nouriel Roubini made fools of Bitcoin Maximalists, mostly by just letting them talk. Read on to find out how.

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Bitcoin for Business Part 2: Data Costs

So you have a great Bitcoin business idea, but will it be cost-effective, or profitable? You’ll need to calculate your costs to send data to the blockchain.

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MetaNet TV Livestream August 2019 – Dr. Craig S. Wright

MetaNetTV’s Monthly Livestream for August 2019 features nChain chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright, with Bitcoin development and legal updates.

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MetaNet WORMs Are the Future

When people talk about worms and the internet in the same sentence, it normally isn’t a positive thing. They mostly refer to malicious computer viruses that infect a host computer and replicate by embedding itself into data and communications such that they are undetectable. Most importantly, due to this replication strategy, a worm is a…
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Why ‘Vanity’ Bitcoin Addresses Are Not Useless After All

Most have discarded the idea of vanity addresses because we shouldn’t reuse addresses for security and privacy. But it seems there might be some use for the vanity address after all. Let’s go over the former and future utility of bitcoin vanity addresses.

Interesting Similarities Between Bitcoin and African Savings Networks

About 30 percent of Africans are aware of Bitcoin but don’t know what it is and how it works. In our previous article, we enlightened them on this peer to peer electronic cash system, and today; we are going to liken some Bitcoin practices to common African monetary practices.

Money in Africa: An Introduction to Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV)

All you need to know about Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, The Original Bitcoin

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Stop Running ‘Full Nodes’

To highlight the distinction between the original intended purpose of this software and what some are using it for, I assert that the ‘node’ software is actually ‘mining’ software.

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On the Stupidity of Groups

One of the beneficial things the MetaNet promises to humanity is to indeed make us smarter. There is a very famous quote that individuals are intelligent, but society is dumb. In fact, put more than 12 people into a group, and the average intelligence of the group is lowered. This is due not only due…
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