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ELI5 Don’t ever mix paper and electronic wallets!
Whatever cryptocurrency you might use, don’t ever mix paper and electronic wallets! In this article we give a ELI5 overview of paper wallets and what you need to know to keep your crypto safe from theft or accidental loss. Paper Wallets First, let’s take a quick look at how paper wallets work. Cryptocurrencies use what […]
Opinion: Tether reserves to be tested during the market downturn [Jan 2018]
When both Bitcoin and altcoins are going down, it usually means cryptos are being traded for fiat currency. Right? Almost. There’s a curious cryptocurrency called Tether (USDT), which supposedly represents one coin for each US Dollar (USD) deposited in accounts in Asia. Right now Tether is one of the few currencies which gained value against […]
Opinion: Will Tether blow up? [Dec 2017 Archive]
There is an elephant in the room in the cryptocurrency world and it’s called Tether. The concept of a cryptocurrency that is tied to the world’s reference fiat currency is very interesting indeed. But it has a very expensive requirement: for every unit of this cryptocurrency, there must be an equal unit in the reference […]
Opinion: Decentralized blockchains can only survive having a valuable token, like Bitcoin, attached to them [Feb 2018]
We’ve heard this time and again, especially from folks in the financial sector: “blockchain is here to stay, Bitcoin not so much”. Is this really so? We disagree, and in this article we discuss the origins of Bitcoin and how the problem it solved only makes sense when there’s a reward for participants to join […]