Following this week’s forced shutdown of their activities in Kazakhstan, bitcoin miners face a rapidly shortening list of countries in which to place their equipment. On 5 January, Kazakh authorities […]
If you thought investing in cryptocurrencies was risky, try making them. An estimated 4.3 million bitcoin mining machines around the world now perform around 82 exahashes (million trillion hashes) per […]
Cryptocurrency networks are intensely political. But it’s often fiendishly hard to work out how those politics operate. Who made the decision to split the ethereum network in 2016, or to […]
A major discovery by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, was that you could ally game theory with computer science and cryptography and achieve a self-sustaining financial network. But there’s […]
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