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8 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Twelve chains, sorted by what each one's issuance rule settles about the price of a single unit — and by how much of that price the rule never touches.
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.
In September 2021, China's NDRC banned new bitcoin mining and its central bank outlawed all virtual-currency business, two years after seizing 194,775 BTC from the PlusToken Ponzi scheme.
Stefan Thomas made an early viral Bitcoin explainer video and an early JS toolkit, became Ripple's CTO, and co-created Interledger — all while locked out of 7,002 BTC since around 2011.
A Silicon Valley executive (Yahoo, AOL) who joined Ripple in 2015 and became CEO in 2016. Has called Bitcoin both China-controlled and, separately, a legitimate store of value.
Twice-over fintech founder (E-Loan, Prosper) who co-founded the company that built the XRP Ledger in 2012. In 2021 he called Bitcoin's proof-of-work a technology the industry should retire.
Created Mt. Gox in 2010 and sold it in 2011, then co-created the XRP Ledger and Stellar. Says the whitepaper convinced him double-spend was solvable at all.
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.