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Six myths about Bitcoin that should be ignored
by Moris Beracha - With the entire distortion field surrounding Bitcoin, it is hard to see all the arguments in favor of the crypto currency. However, we should consider that t...
Can I buy Bitcoin at Walmart?
It's not possible to buy Bitcoin at Walmart directly but there are indirect methods that you can use. Some sellers do not accept cash, Visa or Mastercard (!) on their Bitcoin s...
ELI5 How many Bitcoins are there? Is the number of Bitcoins limited?
tl;dr; There are 17.4 million Bitcoins in circulation at the time of this writing. Bitcoin supply is limited at 21 million BTC. This limit will be reached in the far future as blo...
What is Base58 encoding? Why create yet another encoding scheme?
Base58 is a character encoding system developed by Satoshi Nakamoto. It was first released on the earliest Bitcoin source code tree. Satoshi felt that a new encoding was necessary...
Understand why millions of Bitcoins won’t ever be spent
What happens if you lose the private key of a Bitcoin address which holds some Bitcoins? Can the Bitcoins ever be spent if you don't have the secret key? The answer in both cases ...
The Future of Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the name which is pretty known to many people who comes under the category of investors, tech enthusiast, student, etc. People have put their faith on Bitcoin because o...
A brief introduction to Crypto ATMs
Crypto is everywhere now. But yet, it’s hard to get in. Why? The answer is simple: there’s no proper infrastructure yet. If you want to buy some BTC, you should find a way to ...
Understand cryptocurrency futures
Trading futures is an art. It's probably one of the riskiest investment games you can play, since futures contracts don't actually represent a current asset, but something that is...
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that is based on work published by Satoshi Nakamoto. The first Bitcoin transactions happened on January 3 2009. Today Bit...
Understand the Lightning Network
What is the Lightning Network? Why is it being talked about so much? Here's a brief intro to this new development in the Bitcoin ecosystem and how you can use it to your advantage...