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The Bitcoin Whitepaper Turns 10

November 2, 2018 By Derek Andonian Last Edited: November 2, 2018

On October 31, 2008, a still-anonymous individual (or group of individuals) going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper for the first time, and proposed the idea of what the paper called a “peer-to-peer digital cash system”.  The paper named this new digital currency Bitcoin, and explained how the system would work.  It […]

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Bitcoin Cash Turns 1

August 2, 2018 By Derek Andonian Last Edited: August 2, 2018

One year ago yesterday, on August 1st of 2017, after a years-long debate about how best to scale the Bitcoin blockchain to allow the network to process a greater number of transactions, a sizable group of users who were unhappy with the idea of using SegWit and the Lightning Network to create a “layer 2” […]

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Could A Blockchain Improve Election Security?

October 24, 2016 By Derek Andonian Last Edited: June 20, 2018

Securing the data collected during elections and making sure votes are accurately counted has been a big topic lately.  The hanging chads of 2000 left many people feeling that a faster, more efficient and accurate method for counting votes was needed- and electronic voting machines started appearing more frequently at elections that followed.  These have […]

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