Bitcoin History Part 13: The First Mining Pool


The notion that anyone could solo mine bitcoin – on a CPU no less – seems positively quaint today. But in 2010, this method wasn’t just possible – it was the norm. With an exponentially lower hashrate, less competition and a 50 bitcoin block reward, there was enough pie...

Crypto Market Rebounds to Pre-crash Level


The crypto market moved up sharply on Sunday, recovering all its loses suffered after a crash on Friday. At pixel time (10:17 UTC), all top 100 coins by market capitalization (except four stablecoins) are in green, while bitcoin cash and binance coin are the two biggest gainers (+16% and +14%...

International Money Transfer: Western Union vs World Remit vs Bitcoin


One of the earliest cited use cases for bitcoin was international money transfers. Many believed that bitcoin would disrupt the global remittance market like nothing before because of the digital currency’s ability to process borderless digital cash transactions in a matter of minutes at a much...

After Trillions Printed Under QE, Politicians Now Say Deficits Don’t Matter


When quantitative easing (QE) was introduced, it was likened to a drug, with central banks making an emergency injection of money to resuscitate the global economy. Now it seems that some politicians have gotten addicted to this drug, going as far as to claim that government deficits don’t...

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