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How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?

 

Bitcoin is a sovereign system of digital money. It has no direct correlation to any real-world currency...

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What Means Crypto-currencies?

 

We define cryptocurrencies as: a digital medium of exchange using strong cryptography to ...

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What Can You Buy With Bitcoin?

 

Cryptocurrency’s popularity is rising. But can you buy anything with Bitcoin? In short..

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Why Nobody Can Hack a Blockchain?

 

The blockchains behind most cryptocurrencies are peer-to-peer (P2P), open-source, and public...

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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

 

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym behind the development of Bitcoin and the authorship of the original...

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What Is a Bitcoin Wallet?

 

Bitcoin wallets are similar to their fiat counterparts — but there are specifics to using BTC wallets that make...

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How To Use A Bitcoin ATM?

 

Most methods for purchasing Bitcoin online will link your personal details to the purchase – from exchanges...

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What Is PoW And PoS?

 

Proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are two of the most popular crypto mining mechanisms — but what...

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Nine Things to Know Before Investing in Crypto-currency

 

Digital currencies can be an exciting investment opportunity, but new investors risk losing their capital if ...

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Bitcoin Halvings — What They Are And Why They Happen

 

The last Bitcoin halving took place in May 2020, and we are only now seeing a Bitcoin price rise...

 

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What Is Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) ?

 

The technology behind moving money around in traditional finance hasn’t really been keeping up with the...

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Eight Common Bitcoin Scams and How to Avoid Them

 

As long as new technology is introduced into the world, fraudsters will continue to search for a place...

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Private Keys: The Keys to Your Crypto

 

The difference between private keys and public keys is huge — find out what “not your keys, not your...

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How Long Does BTC Transaction Take?

 

On the Bitcoin network, the average confirmation time for a BTC payment is about 10 minutes. However...

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How To Secure Your Crypto-currency?

 

At the core of cryptocurrencies is the idea of self-sovereignty – the notion that users can act as their... 

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What Is A Mining Pool?

 

Mining is integral to the security of Proof of Work blockchains. By computing hashes with certain...

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What Is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

 

When politics happen to blockchains, hard forks can instigate new projects. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was created by a...

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What Is Crypto-jacking?

 

Cryptojacking is a malicious activity, in which an infected device is used to secretly mine for cryptocurrencies. In order to do so...

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How Does Blockchain Work?

 

In short, a blockchain is a list of data records that works as a decentralized digital ledger. The data is organized into blocks...
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What Is Dogecoin?

 

Yep, Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on one of the most famous memes of all time. Remarkably, its comedic nature hasn’t harmed its survival. It boasts...
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

 

Decentralized Finance (or simply DeFi) refers to an ecosystem of financial applications that are built on top of... 

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