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Competition

We’ve been spending a bit of time reviewing the competitive landscape in cryptocurrencies lately with the help of Grok, and thought it might be interesting to reflect on the where Cardano sits against it’s competitors. Question: Can you give a breakdown of the top 10 cryptocurrencies in a tabular format showing: adoption, decentralisation, security, speed,…

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Bitcoin x Cardano

Some interesting news from the recent Cardano Summit in Dubai. BitcoinOS have succeeded in verifying the first ZK-Proof on Bitcoin, upgrading it to do everything that other blockchains can (albeit a little bit slower). And it did this without forking its code. So this opens up a lot of interesting options and one of the…

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Rosen Bridge

Bridges are an important part of the crypto landscape to provide liquidity and integration between crypto ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano. Historically though, bridges have suffered from insecure and centralised implementations with a long history of compromise by threat actors. A new bridge between Cardano and Ergo (simplistically a PoW partner of Cardano)…

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin

12 years. Birthday wishes from Charles, who captures the sentiment and spirit perfectly. The cryptocurrency innovation that the Bitcoin has unleashed is just starting. Here’s looking forward to the next 12 years.

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The ‘problem’ with Altcoins

We’ve been spending some time lately looking through the Nakamoto Institute web site. You could perhaps say (unfairly?) it’s the spiritual home of the “Bitcoin Maxi”. It has a large amount of excellent references hosted that relate to the goals and design decisions that fed into Bitcoin. For example publications by Ludwig Von Mises on…