How do you spend money? When you want to save money, where will you invest it? When you invest it, who processes your transactions?  Traditionally, the answers to all of these questions lies in established financial systems, dominated by traditional banking

Signing contracts started to be a standard practice around the 17th century. People would meet in a location and agreed on a contract with their signs as proof of that understanding.  Four centuries later, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic,

Stablecoins have moved into the pole position to replace traditional cryptocurrencies as the digital currency of the future. This development has caught the attention of the central banks, who have been calling for the Fed to immediately implement restrictions and

"Blockchain Visualized" is a mind-map style review of the blockchain field. This interactive visual overview includes introductory articles, seminal papers, community websites, company white papers, and other useful resources for navigating the blockchain space. Your browser is not able to display

It’s a chilly Tuesday morning at the start of November. You get out of bed to inevitably check your phone, and a slew of notifications reminds you that today is Election Day. Reminiscing about the distant times of chaotic, hour-long

Cryptocurrency is no longer the obscure, esoteric concept once associated with finance nerds, market enthusiasts, and message-board techies. After the seminal 2009 paper written by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto about the prospect of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (the most famous and valuable

What do Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Whole Foods have in common? One answer that may surprise you: all of these stores now accept Bitcoin as payment. Indeed, the growing acceptance of Bitcoin should be a boon for the average consumer—low transaction

In 2009, Bitcoin became the first cryptocurrency in existence. Today, just over ten years later, the currency has a market capitalization of over $700 billion, and thousands of other cryptocurrencies, collectively known as altcoins, have been developed. Nevertheless, the focus

Since the inception of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in 2009, there have always been critics: those who believe there is no inherent value or use case to these digital tokens. These crypto curmudgeons criticize myriad qualities of the ecosystem, often believing