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Bitcoin Mining’s Boon for Small Town America

Bitcoin mining is interesting because there might not be that many jobs per bitcoin mine. But you create a lot of external jobs around that. In the film, you’ll see there’s tons of people who work in contracting and are in and out of the facility, truck drivers, repair technicians, people pouring concrete, security guards. […]

Remembering ‘True Names’ Author Vernor Vinge

Vinge, born Oct. 2, 1944 in Wisconsin, was also a beloved professor of mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University, where he received a PhD in math in 1971. In 2000, he retired from academia to write hard science fiction full time. Source link

Is Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism Getting Less Toxic?

To find where you stand on the spectrum, ask yourself whether Bitcoin is just and only “savings technology,” a hard money solution to ever-inflating fiat currency? Or, is it also a platform to build fun or useful applications? For years, Bitcoin culture had been dominated by the former, in part because there wasn’t much you […]

Women Are Usually Savers Instead of Investors (Can Bitcoin Change That?)

Moreover, bitcoin has demonstrated its worth as a lucrative store of value, showcasing substantial growth potential over the years. By investing long-term in bitcoin, women have an opportunity to amass wealth and safeguard their financial stability. This becomes particularly critical for women potentially taking career breaks to attend to familial duties, as bitcoin serves as […]

Robert Alice Made NFT History, Now He’s Writing About It

A part of the project “SOURCE [On NFTs]” is about looking at ideas of truth through history, specifically in terms of the NFT space. It really is a project that was influenced by the making of this book. We trained an algorithm on a tower of key texts, historical texts — everything from fourth century […]

What the Warren/Satoshi Flag Moment Means

While there doesn’t appear to be a record online of the flag being flown (or any documented evidence, for that matter), the anonymous prankster did send the certificates Sen. Warren’s office signed to PubKey, a waterhole for Bitcoiners in downtown New York City. Last night, comedian T.J. Miller revealed the documents at the establishment, PubKey’s […]

30 Reasons to Love Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

30 – Vitalik is the leader crypto has always needed: In the absence that Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto left, someone has had to keep the ethos of decentralization, censorship-resistance and credible neutrality alive. Buterin has faced the touch job of remaining in the limelight while building a technology that runs affront to many of the […]