The Birth of Rare Art on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Starting in October 2014, users on the /r9k/ (robot9000) board on 4chan began referring to original illustrations and photoshops of Pepe the Frog as “Rare Pe...
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Blockchain and the United Nations
2010, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development [CSTD] proposed the introduction of a technology-driven universal currency. A BitMint would...
History of Permissioned Ledgers
bureaucracies are so heavily invested in the expertise and importance of local regulations and standards that it’s extremely difficult for them to cut the Go...
Smart Contract History and Related Resources
The capability paradigm is about access control. When a system, such as an OS or a website, is presented with a request for a service it provides, it needs t...
Before Bitcoin
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to kno...
Electronic Cash, Before Bitcoin
Each RPOW or POW token can only be used once but since it gives birth to a new one, it is as though the same token can be handed from person to person.
History of Cryptocurrencies
This is probably the least developed resource on the website. I’m still busy picking up on all the pre-history.
Cypherpunks and the Crypto Wars
Phil Zimmermann was a key player in this period. The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses...
Bitcoin History
“The first recorded claim of bitcoin’s demise was in 2010, on a little-known blog that found itself posted on a record of ‘bitcoin obituaries’ collected by 9...
Bahamas: The ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Caribbean
Pristine beaches and palm trees are the first thing that come to mind. Of course, the Bahamas are also famous for their tax-protected off-shore banking. Howe...