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14 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Proof of work vs proof of stake, scored axis by axis with dated numbers: market cap, track record, energy, attack cost, decentralization, speed and new-chain adoption, with DPoS and PoA beside them.
CoinMarketCap recorded Ethereum's market cap at roughly 85% of Bitcoin's on June 12, 2017 — the closest the name behind 'the flippening' ever came to the number, before both fell back.
Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.
Dogecoin has no whitepaper, no company, and no cap on its supply — a decade-old test of whether Bitcoin's scarcity is what a market actually pays for.
No supply cap, a fee burn that can push issuance negative, and a 2022 switch from mining to staking — Ethereum's own design documents, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
A relay chain coordinating parachains, nominated proof-of-stake, and the 2025 vote that capped a supply that had never had a ceiling -- Polkadot's design, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
Ethereum's first CEO, removed in 2014, who built Cardano on the opposite design choices. His verdict on Bitcoin moved from "worth a Turing prize" to "a religion, not an ecosystem".
Bitcoin's 'digital gold' status rests on two layers of decentralization — system and people/organization — and six structural features no later cryptocurrency combines to the same degree.
Bitcoin chose a hard 21M cap; b-money (1998) proposed elastic supply; fiat runs central-bank discretion. The cypherpunk debate, Wei Dai's 2013 regret, and 15 years of cryptocurrency variants.
Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.
Mihai Alisie and Vitalik Buterin launched Bitcoin Magazine in 2012; first print issue May 2012. Grew out of Buterin's writing for the Bitcoin Weekly blog; became a long-running Bitcoin outlet.
Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).
Markus and Palmer launched Dogecoin on December 6, 2013, built on Luckycoin (a Litecoin fork) around the 'Doge' meme. Initially a satire of crypto speculation, it grew into a top-10 cryptocurrency.
Belgian software engineer (sipa), Bitcoin Core committer since 2011. Author/co-author of BIP-32, BIP-141 (SegWit), BIP-340/341 (Schnorr/Taproot). Initiator of libsecp256k1; Blockstream co-founder.