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PREVIOUSLY ON ‘CRYPTO WARS’: In the latest episodes (From Episode V),  we saw that the survival of the Bitcoin ecosystem, relied on the sheer resilience of its code. A protocol known as SHA-256, a member of the SHA-2 cryptographic hash functions, as computed by the ‘notorious’ American, NSA. SHA: stands for Secure Hash Algorithm  and,...

PREVIOUSLY on CRYPTO WARS: In the latest episode (Episode V), we explained the origin story, of the ‘Bitcoin crypto asset’ which was an application (or ‘App’) built from a core blockchain code; This Blockchain  ‘protocol’, was made by a hacker-scientist and ex-member of the ‘1990’s cypherpunk movement of the early internet days’ : Satoshi Nakamoto...

  PREVIOUSLY on CRYPTO WARS: In the latest episode (From Episode V), we explained that the ‘Bitcoin crypto asset’ was an application (or ‘App’) built from a core blockchain algorithm; This Blockchain  ‘protocol’, was created by a mysterious japanese computer scientist and ‘Beautiful mind’ of the early internet days’ : Satoshi Nakamoto San’ This ‘data-fact’,...

PREVIOUSLY on CRYPTO WARS: In the latest episodes (From Episode V), we explained how the ‘Bitcoin crypto asset’ was an application (or ‘App’)  built from a core blockchain algorithm; This Blockchain  ‘protocol’, created by a mysterious japanese computer scientist, the ‘Crypto-Kool Herc’ of Bitcoin,and ex-member of the ‘1990’s cypherpunk movement of the early internet days’...

  PREVIOUSLY on CRYPTO WARS: In the latest episodes (From Episode V), we revealed the  origin story of the ‘Bitcoin crypto asset’’ as an application (or ‘App’) built from a core blockchain algorithm;  A Blockchain ‘protocol’, or computer program, made by a mysterious japanese ‘Jedi‘, computer scientist and ex-member of the ‘1990’s cypherpunk movement of...

1. THE ELEGANCE OF THE PROTOCOL – プロトコルの寛大さ – Oleg Poshner is a miner. He has put together a mining rig with several graphic cards, to increase its GPU (or Graphic Processing Unit) mining power. He ‘Hodles’ or ‘hold’ some bitcoin, roughly 30% of his crypto-stash, ‘for the community’ (meaning: he does not cash ALL...

1. IS BITCOIN, WAKANDANOMICS? #WAKANDANOMICS: It is the global study of networked economics, crypto-Economics, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or the African ‘Tontine’ system, or the chinese ‘Shadow Banking system’ …. Please check this VIDEO on YT, for the cultural throwback :  #WAKANDA on ‘GOOTUBE’ ! (G+)     #SATOSHINOMICS is the study of Bitcoin/Blockchain economics and...

After Dragon Ball Z, Mangas, the Samurais, Toyota and Super Mario’…from Japan comes yet another bright mind of the emerging ‘Nippon crypto renaissance’: Satoshi NAKAMOTO, Computer scientist, scholar, academic, author, creator, ‘Yoda’ and ‘Beautiful mind’ behind the unifying Blockchain protocol. Almost single handedly, he has now spearheaded an entire industry based on the Blockchain: The...

0. #CRYPTOSUMMER OF SAM 2017 ! We left you in Zimbabwe, where Bitcoin got the better of the old Mugabe regime, in late 2017. We are back in CryptoLand with this Game of thrones, at play in the hottest Crypto Summer of All time! (Since 2009): The ‘CryptoSummer of Sam’ of 2017, is also known,...

0. #BLACKFRIDAY ?!    Let’s take a drone view from crypto-history, as the second part of this tale of the new ‘Crypto war’, carries on in Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, named after a ‘Dude’ called ‘Rhodes’. His ‘House of cards’ collapsed in the 1980’s, under the ‘pawn of the Anti-Apartheid-Lion, Mugabe’! – A bit...