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How to Understand What People Mean When They Say “We’re Probably in a Simulation.”

I recently listened to an episode of Joe Rogan where Nick Bostrom tried to explain the concept of simulation theory. Although the…

4 min readNov 12, 2019

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The Bitcoin Podcast Network

Reframing how you think about the concept of “managing your private keys”

If you’ve been around the cryptocurrency community for long, then you’ve definitely heard people preach sayings such as, “Always remember…

11 min readDec 28, 2018

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The Bitcoin Podcast Network

The Role of Randomness in Proof of Work Mining

I hear people throw shade at idea of Proof of Stake (PoS) protocols quite often. I think that most of these comments are founded in false…

7 min readApr 16, 2018

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A Petty Crypto Review: Cardano

So I get hit up quite frequently about various coins and whether or not they’re worth looking into, are a scam, are legit, etc. So I’ve…

6 min readDec 22, 2017

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A Petty Crypto Review: Cardano

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The Bitcoin Podcast Network

Getting Past the Golden Hammer with a Quantum Mechanics Example: A Valuable Lesson for Blockchain

When reading about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, other alt coins, etc… (I’ll use capital B — Blockchain here to encompass them all) I hear…

6 min readNov 11, 2017

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Corey Petty

The Merkle-ization of Individuality

Unlike most of my posts or writings, this is not a technical one. It borrows from the technical world a bit, but its purpose is more of a…

5 min readNov 8, 2017

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The Merkle-ization of Individuality

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The Bitcoin Podcast Network

A Look at the Status.im ICO Token Distribution

NOTE UP FRONT: I express my opinions here (at least at the end of the article). If you don’t like them and don’t have evidence to support…

8 min readJun 27, 2017

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A Look at the Status.im ICO Token Distribution

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A Look at the BAT Token Distribution

Jesus H. Christ folks. I’ve put off doing this one a little bit, in part because I’m a bit depressed/disappointed/confused/? in the…

7 min readJun 6, 2017

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BlockChannel

A Look at the Aragon ICO Investment Distribution

Another ERC20 Initial Coin Offering (ICO), another ridiculous amount of money, in another ridiculously short period of time. This time…

5 min readMay 18, 2017

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A Look at the Aragon ICO Investment Distribution

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A Look at the TokenCard ICO Investor Distribution

This is another look at the distribution of an ICO in the Ethereum space, because I think its important to see the overall trends of how…

7 min readMay 2, 2017

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Corey Petty

Corey Petty

Host of The Bitcoin Podcast, Hashing It Out and BlockChannel, Security at Status.im, former Booz, PhD in computational physical chemistry.

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