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Bitcoin Is The Hulk | HackerNoon

The more you beat the Hulk, the stronger he becomes. Same with Bitcoin. Especially if it is beaten by the other 2 energy guzzlers. Part 1 – Energy Guzzlers The Industrial Revolution – a man, and the Information Revolution – a woman, have together produced a bunch of child technologies with an appetite for energy that humans cannot comprehend. These include: Bitcoin/Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum computing. Interestingly, we humans fear the “Nuclear Power Baby

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What is a USD Stablecoin and Do We Really Have Hundreds of Them? | HackerNoon

By making dollar values zip around the world at the speed of a Bitcoin on the Lightning Network, final settlement in USD stablecoins becomes possible without any dollars leaving bank vaults. Or even being printed … *** What is a USD stablecoin? A USD stablecoin is a cryptocurrency with a 1:1 peg to the US Dollar. Therefore 1 coin of any such stablecoin is always worth $1. How Does it Retain the Dollar Peg? There

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Make Bitcoin Great Again | HackerNoon

A fictional exploration. Ideas Feed Bitcoin While going about my day today, I got a few ideas on Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin. It has yet a few emergent miracles to unleash on the global economic stage. Well, I was preoccupied with the idea of Geo-Locked Bitcoin or Geographically constrained bitcoins. What is that? Just an idea for Bitcoin plebs to use code and hardware to trap bitcoins within the boundaries of national borders… Imagine if

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To Interact Better, Interact More for Fun | HackerNoon

Interaction Is Greater Than Resources “How can a country with no oil, gold, or coltan, be richer than a country with all three plus bigger chunks of fertile land, forests?” I had this conversation with an OG History teacher at the high school where I teach. He was teaching me. I was the student. The first country is called Japan. The second country is called DR Congo. 2 words – Human Interaction. The interactions of

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USA, Russia, and Very Frustrated Bitcoiners | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read The USA and Russia could unite to stall the growth of Bitcoin with a series of bans and legal actions. But this might birth a group of ardent cypherpunks from those frustrated Bitcoiners. These could hit back by counter-banning Russia and the USA! With Bitcoin around, moves like QE could facilitate the flow of rubles or dollars into Bitcoin, which governments don’t want. But with too much oppression of Bitcoin, bitcoins

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Odell Vs Saylor – Should Bitcoin Devs Dev? | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read A Bitcoin Developer called Odell has posted on Nostr a series of posts, all claiming that Michael Saylor has come out to fight Bitcoin ETF companies that plan to hire and finance Bitcoin core developers. The implication is that Saylor believes this is really bad for Bitcoin, but the other implication is that people are mean to Bitcoin developers, thinking they do nothing all day except look for typos in Bitcoin

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