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Why is it so hard to ban bitcoin?
It is in the interests of central banks, legacy traditional banks, politicians, and weapons manufacturers to ban bitcoin. With bitcoin: *...
Tiena Sekharan
May 14, 20214 min read
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Bitcoin criticisms debunked!
Anyone familiar with centralized currencies and monetary systems has to adopt a starkly different mindset to understand bitcoin. Wait! It...
Tiena Sekharan
Mar 30, 202114 min read
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Crypto ban- India's Prisoner's Dilemma problem
Image source - Yahoo Finance If a battle can’t be won, don’t fight it - Sun Tzu The only way the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) can ban...
Tiena Sekharan
Mar 1, 20216 min read
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Is Quantum Computing a threat to Bitcoin?
Image source - MIT Ever since Google gained “Quantum Supremacy”, i.e it's Sycamore Quantum Computer solved in 200 seconds what would take...
Tiena Sekharan
Feb 17, 20216 min read
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The real crypto opportunity for Wall Street- "Yield Farming"
Cryptos are attracting the attention of Wall Street. Banks, asset managers, and corporate treasuries are building crypto infrastructure...
Tiena Sekharan
Jan 27, 20215 min read
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Launching a Token? Answer the following questions first.
Tokens are digital assets that are created, issued, and managed on a blockchain. There are over 2000 cryptocurrencies out there. If your...
Tiena Sekharan
Jan 15, 20216 min read
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Why you should buy bitcoin and not GBTC
Image source - ycharts Retail investors have been gaining exposure to bitcoin through the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Finding it...
Tiena Sekharan
Dec 30, 20205 min read
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What is the Lightning Network?
Remember the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas back in 2010? His name is Laszlo Hanyecz. In 2018, he bought 2 more pizzas with...
Tiena Sekharan
Dec 8, 20204 min read
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China- Crypto Superpower or a Crypto Nobody?
China is at a point where it needs to make decisions regarding cryptocurrencies that will have long-run consequences. Based on news in...
Tiena Sekharan
Nov 25, 20205 min read
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What is JPM Coin?
JPM Coin went live last week when it was used by a large unnamed JP Morgan tech client to send payments around the world. Woohoo! Why am...
Tiena Sekharan
Nov 10, 20204 min read
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Clearing misinformation around CBDCs - Central Bank Digital Currency
There seems to be a lot of misinformation about Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The perception is that it is somewhat similar to...
Tiena Sekharan
Nov 6, 20207 min read
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Can Bitcoin touch US$55,000?
Ever since Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, it has mainly been retail investors who have shown an interest in this...
Tiena Sekharan
Oct 30, 20204 min read
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What are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)?
Image Source - CryptoKitties When I first heard about CryptoKitties, I was a bitcoin skeptic and I immediately thought to myself “This is...
Tiena Sekharan
Oct 14, 20205 min read
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The time is ripe for Ethereum to move to Proof-of-Stake
There is an urgent need to find solutions to the scaleability problems plaguing the Ethereum network. High gas prices and clogged...
Tiena Sekharan
Sep 23, 20204 min read
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What is "Staking"?
Image Source - Staking In a sentence - “Staking is a viable way to earn passive income by locking cryptocurrency in a Proof-of-Stake...
Tiena Sekharan
Sep 17, 20202 min read
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What is a "Flash loan"? Why is it so infamous?
Image Source - Flash Loan Before we look at flash loans, let us first remind ourselves how a normal loan works => If I own a house worth...
Tiena Sekharan
Sep 16, 20205 min read
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How to launder Bitcoins?
Image Source - Hacker Who needs Privacy? A citizen might want to keep her transactions hidden from say an authoritarian government or a...
Tiena Sekharan
Sep 1, 20204 min read
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What happened at MakerDAO on 12-13 Mar'2020?
In March this year, cryptocurrencies like Ether suddenly fell ~50% on the back of the coronavirus. The domino effect of the collapse in...
Tiena Sekharan
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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What is a 51% Attack?
Let's start with a brief reminder of how Proof-of-work consensus protocol works in the bitcoin blockchain Transactions are stored in...
Tiena Sekharan
Aug 12, 20202 min read
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What is Baseline Protocol?
If one wants to use blockchain for storing business process data, several questions/concerns crop up. 1. How will privacy be maintained?...
Tiena Sekharan
Aug 10, 20203 min read
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