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Ever since we at CryptoArticles have heard of SWARM, we have been avid followers of the company and the developments. We also met with a lot of people involved 
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Spanish cryptocurrency startup Coinffeine has demonstrated a trial version of its new p2p bitcoin exchange platform at an event in Madrid.
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We all know about Bitcoin: It’s that electronic currency that exists somewhere in the ether and can be used to buy illicit products on the Internet. And it isn’t backed by hard assets (such as gold specie) or a sovereign nation.
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The still raging financial crisis of 2007–2008 has enabled the emergence of several alternative practices concerning the production, circulation and use of money. This essay explores the political economy of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Specifically, we examine the context in which this digital currency is emerging as well as its nature, dynamics, advantages, and disadvantages. We conclude that Bitcoin, a truly interesting experiment, exemplifies "distributed capitalism" and should be mostly seen as a technological innovation. Rather than providing pragmatic answers and solutions to the current views on the financial crisis, Bitcoin provides some useful and timely questions about the principles and bases of the dominant political economy.
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For a while now, society’s renewed interest in transparency and decentralization has been manifesting itself in myriad ways across Western culture, and it is finally hitting financial markets too.
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Peter Smith of Blockchain.info and Susan Athey of Stanford University took the stage atDisrupt NY to update everyone on the state of bitcoin. In the last few months, Mt.Gox collapsed, bitcoin has lost half of its value. Can bitcoin survive following the current reality check?
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Dogecoin-mania continues unabated. The following short article, reposted from Ihavebitcoins.com, argues that it could lead to a surge in the gift economy. Read on…
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A Bitcoin spinoff known as Mazacoin has been adopted by a confederation of seven Native American tribes as their national currency. The Oglala Lakota Nation has expressed hope that it will draw the tribes out of poverty.
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Bitcoin is based on the “proof of work” principle, which means the more computer power you apply to the problem, the more likely you are to get rewarded. This leads to a computer power arms race, as Bitcoin “miners” need to heavily invest in both hardware and electricity to constantly run it, where “… as of April 2013 the generation of Bitcoins was using approximately $150,000 USD per day in power consumption costs.”
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BOINC is an acronym that stands for (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), is an open-source computing grid where scientists, universities can create their own research projects to host on the client and have volunteers contribute processing power. BOINC takes unused clock cycles from your CPU and, depending on what platforms a particular project is coded in, your Nvidia and AMD graphics cards.
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Bitcoin is remarkably polarizing. Technology evangelists and central-bank critics ardently believe — no, they know — that the digital currency can liberate mankind from the tyranny of banks and government-backed paper money. Skeptics note that, like other new technological disruptions, bitcoin attracts innovators and hucksters in equal measure. How can a currency created by an anonymous coder and backed by no state, and whose value flaps around like a flag in a swirling wind, hope to challenge the global economic order and replace the dollar?
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The Isle of Man is definitely taking the lead when it comes to cryptocurrency-related initiatives. Many experts are expecting the island to become a major player in the industry and overshadow hot spots such as Luxembourg and Singapore, notably due to the optimistic approach that has been taken by the Government towards digital currencies.
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Digital crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin are the singularity of money and, after spending some time educating myself, I have turned from a skeptic into a fan. If you are not familiar with the topic then I suggest that you start with my interview with Andreas Antonopoulos. In that conversation we lay down the basics and discuss why "Bitcoin is not currency; it's the internet of money!"
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The top 5 most capitalized cryptocurrencies compared. Which cryptocurrency is the best? The answer may surprise you.
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David Gilson reports on the very first UK local government operated cryptocurrency, HullCoin.
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In a recent blog post on CoinDesk, Brett Scott introduced the idea that cryptocurrencies could have a major impact on the rise of a gift based economy. At the fore of this gifting culture is the unlikely aspirational hero that is Dogecoin, the meme based Shiba Inus dog touting cryptocurrency. The Shibe community on Reddit recently raised $33,000 to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Olympics. This tremendous feat is a testament to the power of people coming together to give whatever small amount they can to make a difference. And it’s just one example of shibes showing their support for the underdog.
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“Current projects in Iceland, Scotland and Poland each plan to issue a cryptocurrency equally to every citizen, which sounds like sharing, at least at the start of the currencies’ lives, and it could be good for the economy (if only the economy measured real activity, and not only movement of legal tender) by providing an extra source of liquidity, and a fall back mechanism, in the unlikely event of a total banking collapse.
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 PeercoinPeercoin Central bank None. The Peercoin peer-to-peer network regulates and distributes through consensus in protocol.[1] Date of introduction 12 August 2012, 17:57:38 UTC User(s) International Inflation Limited release rate plus 1% decentralized inflation due to the proof-of-stake system.[1] [2] Subunit  0.001 mPPC (millicoin)  0.000001 μPPC (microcoin)  0.00000001 Smallest unit Symbol Ᵽ, PPC Nickname Peercoin, PPCoin, P2PCoin, PPC Plural PPC, Peercoins Peercoin (code: ), also known as PPCoin and Peer-to-Peer Coin is the first cryptocurrency based on an implementation of a combined proof-of-stake (PoS)/ proof-of-work system (PoW).
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