Part 4 Will Wall Street Coopt and Strangle Etherum?

Bitcoin is radical and disruptive. In addition to being a totally decentralized, permissionless system, there are no human managers that you can talk to. Ethereum is different. You can talk to Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin. Techies may prefer Vitalik Buterin and biz types maybe more comfortable with Joseph Lubin, but both are humans that […]

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Part 3 Competition to Ether from Bitcoin and “wannabees”.

Ethereum is perceived as better than Bitcoin because it can run smart contracts. The inconvenient truth for Ethereum fans is that you can also run smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain and the innovation in this space looks vibrant with projects such as Sphinx on the Lightning Network and Stacks (fka Blockstack). There are also […]

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Part 2 Ethereum’s big transition to Proof Of Stake

A much heralded part of Ethereum 2.0 is the transition to Proof Of Stake. It may happen during 2021 or 2022. With Proof Of Stake, users validate transactions based on the number of coins they hold. For example, the more ETH a user has, the more power they possess. This is not mining, it is […]

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Part 1 what is Ethereum 2.0?

Ethereum is a blockchain platform born in 2014 that enables programmers to build decentralized ledger applications (DApps). Confusingly there is both a native currency/token “ether,” only for  transactions on the platform, and an investable asset called ETH. The Ethereum 2.0 upgrade began many years ago and got some reality with Beacon Chain in December 2020,  existing alongside […]

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