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How to Calculate Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use

There’s some misunderstanding around how the electricity use of Bitcoin is…

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Bitcoin’s Big Problem

There is a problem that is getting overlooked in the grand visions of a crypto-currency fuelled future of peer-to-peer payments. One that has put a wrench in adoption and that few people are addressing.

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A Distributed Alternative to Basic Income

By now, we are all familiar with the concept of Basic Income. The need for a basic income is borne out of an inability to imagine a future that is dramatically different from the one we are in today. In today’s world we have one full-time job (or perhaps 2…

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Bitcoin’s Electricity use is Not a Problem

As someone who cares deeply about climate change and efficiency, the fact that so much energy is being spent mining for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes me pause. However on deeper inspection the energy used by bitcoin in particular is not the…

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Open Source Funding Blockchain

Blockchains are the becoming relevant in the world of finance and spreading into many more areas as the core ideas get expanded upon. The value of a global decentralized peer-to-peer currency is immediately obvious to anyone who has tried to purchase from, or sell to people…

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You Probably Haven’t Given Enough To Open Source This Year

The world runs on open source software built and maintained by volunteers. The body of work given away as free software represents billions of dollars worth of donated man hours. This work ultimately comes from men and women who…

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Funded Free Software

Free and Open Source Software is the foundation that powers everything on the internet. The robustness of this software is critical to the whole economy. As I write this, Petya ransomware is infecting major corporate networks and racking up a terrible cost.

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