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Crypto Bill

Bill is a writer, geek, crypto-curious polyheurist, a dog's best friend and coffee addict. Information security expert, encryption software with interests in P2P networking, decentralized applications (dApps), smart contracts and crypto based payment solutions. Crypto Bill has published a total of 287 Posts

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2020 Bitcoin and Altcoin Hacks [Part 12]
This article is part of our complete guide to Bitcoin and altcoin hacks. Here we cover Bitcoin and altcoin security incidents from the year 2020. 2020 has been an unusual year ...
ELI5 Cardano Staking & Basic FAQ
In this article we look at the very basics of Cardano staking. If you've got any experience whatsoever with other Proof of Stake coins, then you probably don't need to read th...
2018 Bitcoin and Altcoin Hacks [Part 10]
This article is part of our complete guide to Bitcoin and altcoin hacks. Here we cover Bitcoin and altcoin security incidents from the year 2018. Monacoin and Monappy In May...
2019 Bitcoin and Altcoin Hacks [Part 11]
This article is part of our complete guide to Bitcoin and altcoin hacks. Here we cover Bitcoin and altcoin security incidents from the year 2019. Binance Binance's impressiv...
How MetaMask mistakenly flagged us as a phishing site
We were surprised to find out that, since February 10 , MetaMask had begun reporting Crypto.BI as a phishing site. At first we thought we'd been h...
Create an autotools project from scratch
Recently I decided to finally try to understand autotools. It's been on my list for ages, so I took the opportunity to read a bit more about the de-facto standard GNU build system...
15 Best altcoins to invest in 2020
As we reach the end of another crypto season, investors have already started looking for the next 10X investment. If we take a closer look at the top 20 coins ranked by market ...
Proof of Work Summary [Cryptocurrency consensus mechanisms]
PoW uses a brute force approach where miners compete to find block hashes beginning with a certain number of zeroes. The more zeroes, the more difficult it is to find such hash...
Proof of Stake Velocity (PoSV) Summary [Cryptocurrency consensus mechanisms]
As the name implies, Proof of Stake Velocity is a variation on traditional PoS. It was developed for the Reddcoin project, which abandoned Proof of Work in favor of the more en...
The U$ 170 million Bitcoin milk carton reward
In 2012 the 2600 Hacker Quarterly magazine published what was to become the world's largest milk carton reward - ever. At today's Bitcoin market valuation (U$ 8568.00 / BTC) a...