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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 273 Posts

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Cryptocurrencies and smart cities: The Future?
Futuristic novels by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and other cyberpunk authors inspired a whole generation which dreamed of revolutionary concepts such as virtual cities, flying ...
Can Bitcoin SV scale?
Bitcoin SV has made the transition to (for all practical purposes) unlimited block size. You can now store any amount of data on the BSV blockchain, which raises serious questi...
Why do I need to join a Bitcoin mining pool?
The Bitcoin protocol is open. Its source code is available to everyone and anyone can adapt the original code to mine Bitcoins. If that's the case, then why do I need to join a mi...
ELI5: What is a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)?
DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization. It is a concept that stems from organizations being able to run based on self-enforcing smart contracts. Note: although th...
ELI5 What is cryptocurrency mining?
Mining is the process by which cryptocurrency transactions get verified. The process got its name from the fact that once a block is verified, whoever solved it will earns som...
DON’T use Paypal for cryptocurrency purchases [Early 2020 article]
November 2020 Update In late October 2020, Paypal updated their policy to allow cryptocurrency purchases. The payments processor also updated their Terms and Conditions to e...
Cryptocurrency bubble: FUD or reality?
NOTE: This June 2018 article discussed the 2018 bear market in the context of 2017's crazy ICO-driven market rally. As we now (2023) know, most of ICO's collapsed in the years af...
Who is “Team Rocket”, the creators of the Avalanche protocol?
The Avalanche protocol family creators' true identity is, perhaps, cryptocurrency's most poorly kept secret. Or is it? Why would such a great idea's true creators want to ke...
AVAX Staking tutorial – How to begin staking Avalanche [Early AVAX staking, in 2020]
Note: This is an article from Avalanche's early days, back in 2020, before the mainnet went live! Back then there were no staking instructions available. In fact, we published th...
Is Avalanche safe from SEC regulatory actions? How does it compare to Ripple?
Ava Labs is a US-based company, founded by cryptography experts from Cornell University in NY and funded by several investors in the US. Ripple is a US-based company, founded ...