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inthearena
@inthearena Dec 22, 2017, 10:53 AM UTC

Bitcoin's Lightning Network - How Does It Work and How to Test It

Bitcoin's Lighting Network will revolutionize the way we spend money. It's coming soon - it was already tested on Bitcoin's Mainnet and it's available for pubic testing on the Testnet. I'm crazy exci…

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@inthearena Dec 2, 2017, 8:13 PM UTC

Altcoins - What Are They And How to Buy Them (i.e. NEO, IOTA, Power Ledger etc)

You've heard of Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin. Maybe Neo, IOTA, Dash? Did you know that there are over 1,300 other coins with a combined market cap over USD300 billion? Bitcoin is an amazing story. Sat…

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@inthearena Nov 26, 2017, 8:48 PM UTC

Byzantine Generals: Why Bitcoin Has Miners and How it is Secure

Through its mining concept, Bitcoin, a relatively small currency with just 2.9 million to 5.8 million unique active users (University of Cambridge, 2016) has created the world's most powerful compute…

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@inthearena Nov 24, 2017, 11:49 PM UTC

Bitcoin so how does it actually work?

> I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper. Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008 Bitcoin is comp…

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@inthearena Nov 11, 2017, 10:55 PM UTC

Are S&P500 and Bitcoin returns normally distributed? Some statistical tests

For an upcoming post I'm writing (on the Barbell strategy for asset allocation) I wanted to provide evidence that stock market returns are not normally distributed. I also thought it would be fun to…

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@inthearena Nov 5, 2017, 6:39 PM UTC

Dive right in - getting started with Bitcoin

> A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. Nassim Taleb My last post led with a quote from Isaac Newton . Probably one of the most important figures in the scientific revolut…

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@inthearena Nov 4, 2017, 5:45 PM UTC

Mining Hashes and Nonces - the evolution of Cryptocurrency

> If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newtown To Satoshi (the author of the first blockchain paper), it was so important to credit the ideas of those before…

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@inthearena Nov 1, 2017, 1:23 AM UTC

Evil, a mirage and perhaps one of the world's most important developments

> "Bitcoin is Evil." Paul Krugman > “Stay away from it. It’s a mirage, basically.” Warren Buffett > “Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.” Bill Gates ## Learn about Bitcoin Bubble or no…

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@inthearena Nov 1, 2017, 1:02 AM UTC

Theodore Roosevelt’s The Man In The Arena

In 1912, TR (as he liked to be called) was shot up close in a failed assignation attempt. Moments later he continued to deliver a 90 minute speech with blood seeping out his chest. “Ladies and gentle…

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