Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

An in-depth look at Cryptocurrency & Blockchain, what they are, how they differ from existing methods, and what the advocates and critics have to say about them.

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Further Reading:
Original Paper on bitcoin:
Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Charles Stross Blog Entry "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire"
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html

Daneil Jeffries rebuttal, "Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin":
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/charles-stross-doesnt-know-thing-bitcoin-1389147532

Abrahim Ladha’s “Hypothetical Problems concerning the Theory of Relativity on Cryptographic Currency Implementations”:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04265

Paul Krugman's paper "Theory of Interstellar Trade":
https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf