Digital Currency

Digital Currency is the value of an exchange stored, transacted or fulfilled wholly by electronic means. This means that though a Digital Currency service may connect to a bank account (savings-based transaction) or credit card (debt-based transaction) to perform a transaction, it is not the credit card or bank account itself.

Blockchain

A Blockchain​ is a public ledger that records a set of data transactions, eliminating the need for a centralized third party or authority to store or process said transactions. In the case of BitCoin (which was the project that originated this algorithmic approach to transaction processing), the Blockchain is a full history of banking transactions. Blocks, or the most recent transactions being recorded, are like an individual banking statement. Each completed block is added to the chain, and another block begins, forming the constantly growing Blockchain.

BitCoin users dictate and verify transactions each time a person pays someone else for goods or services. The completed transaction is publicly recorded into the Blockchain, where it’s verified by other Bitcoin users. Blockchain is seen as BitCoin’s main technological innovation, since it provides proof of each transaction. It is used to review transaction histories to determine how much value a particular address owned at any given time. Each computer that’s connected to the BitCoin network receives a copy of the Blockchain upon joining the network.

• wikipedia: Blockchain (database
• wikipedia: Block cipher mode of operation
• wikipedia: Blockchain.info
• TED Talks - Blockchain Demystified: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ikEV6xGg4
• Blockchain as a Service -- The New Weapon in the Cloud Wars?: https://dzone.com/articles/blockchain-as-a-service-the-new-weapon-in-the-cloud
• IBM Blockchain Starter Plan: https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/getting-started.html
• AWS Blockchain Partners: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/blockchain/
• Wait, What Is Blockchain?: http://fortune.com/2016/05/23/blockchain-definition/
• What is Blockchain? (VIDEO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WG7D47tGb0

FACT SHEET: President Biden to Sign Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/09/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-innovation-in-digital-assets/

Ethereum SmartContracts

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a value token called "ether", which can be transferred between participants and is used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed. Gas, an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to prevent spam on the network and allocate resources proportionally to the incentive offered by the request

• wikipedia: Ethereum
• Ethereum: https://www.ethereum.org/ (leading open source BlockChain Platform implementation for use in applications other than just cryptocurrency)
• Web3J - Ethereum lib (JAVA): https://web3j.io/ (lightweight, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for integrating with nodes on Ethereum blockchains)

OpenBazaar

OpenBazaar is essentially a re-branding of DarkMarket, which was confirmed to be a front to catch cyber-criminals, run by the FBI.

• OpenBazaar: https://openbazaar.org/ (A Free Market for all. No Fees. No Restrictions)
• Dark Wallet: http://darkwallet.is/
• Bitcoin 'black market' creators make money laundering app: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/30/dark-wallet
• Dark Markets, Dark Wallets and Darker Days for Bitcoin: https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-weekly-digest-dark-markets-wallets-days/
• Cody Wilson launches Dark Wallet to turn every market into a black market: http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2014/05/01/cody-wilson-and-dark-wallet-for-bitcoin.html?page=all
• Dark Wallet Is Here to Return Bitcoin to Its Radical Roots: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dark-wallet-is-here-to-return-bitcoin-to-its-radical-cypherpunk-roots
• Dark Wallet for truly Anonymous Bitcoin transactions: https://coinreport.net/dark-wallet-bitcoin-anonymous/
• OpenBazaar launches DarkMarket successor with a 'more positive image': http://www.dailydot.com/news/openbazaar-darkmarket-silk-road-bitcoin/
• wikipedia: DarkMarket

Audius

Audius is a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. It does this by being fully decentralized: Audius is owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and developers from around the world. Audius gives artists the power to share "never-before-heard" music and monetize streams directly. Developers can build their own apps on top of Audius, giving them access to one of the most unique audio catalogs in existence.

• Audius - A Decentralized Protocol for Audio Content (WHITEPAPER): https://whitepaper.audius.co/AudiusWhitepaper.pdf

SmartContracts

• wikipedia: Smart contract
• EIP-721 -- ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721

• DAML -- Build full-stack, distributed applications for DLT, Blockchain, or databases in days: https://daml.com

SmartCards

• Curated list of "JavaCard" applications: https://github.com/EnigmaBridge/javacard-curated-list

• wikipedia: Proof of personhood

Proof of Work

• wikipedia: Proof of work

Proof of Stake

• wikipedia: Proof of stake

Proof of Space

• wikipedia: Proof of space

Proof of Authority

• wikipedia: Proof of authority

NFT

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are guaranteed unique identifiers that can be used to prove ownership of an "authentic" original digital asset (such as artwork, digital image, music track/album, video clip, TV show, movie, etc).

• wikipedia: Non-fungible tokens

DeFi

• Institutions Say They Want DeFi: https://decrypt.co/83041/mirror-daos-and-the-exclusivity-problem

dApp

• wiki: Decentralized application (commonly abbreviated as dApp)

IPFS

• IPFS: https://webui.ipfs.io/#/ | DOCS
• What Is the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and How Do You Use It?: https://www.howtogeek.com/784295/what-is-the-interplanetary-file-system-ipfs/

Cryptocurrencies & E-Payments

Cryptocurrencies are electronic and/or digitally held currencies that implement a blockchain or similar P2P verification/ledger scheme to accomplish decentralization of ownership of the money supply and system for transferring, storing & measuring wealth (although not all crytocurrencies are necessarily decentralized).

Electronic Payments (commonly abbreviated E-Payments) are simply transacting online or on a mobile device with existing major national & global currencies (such as the US Dollar, Canadian dollar, European Union euro, Japanese yen, Chinese renminbi, etc).

Open

BitCoin

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. It is referred to as the first mildly successful cryptocurrency.

• BitCoin: http://www.bitcoin.org/ | Price Chart | Candlestick
• BitCoin - A P2P Electronic Cash System (ORIGINAL WHITEPAPER): https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
• BitCoin Protocol: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification
• BitCoin Miner (clients): http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/4002371604/miner-pools-software-20110321
• Javascript Bitcoin miner: https://github.com/mcandre/jsMiner
• My BitCoin - web tools for accepting BitCoin payments: https://www.mybitcoin.com/
• BitCoin Block Explorer (find records for every BitCoin P2P transaction): http://blockexplorer.com/
• BitCoin charts: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
• BitCoin Report - Top 100 Richest of the month: http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/
• BitCoin accepting businesses: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
• Donation-accepting organizations and projects: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects
• Mycelium - BitCoin Wallet: https://mycelium.com/bitcoinwallet (leading Android BTC Wallet)

• BTC Pay Server: https://btcpayserver.org/ (OSS crypto-payments processing option)
• BitCoin -- Over-The-Counter (OTC): http://www.bitcoin-otc.com/
• PaidWithBitcoin: http://www.paidwithbitcoin.com
• Coinbase - Hosted BitCoin Wallet: https://coinbase.com/ | API | DOCS

FAUCETS (shut down ever since cost of giving way BitCoin became the same as giving away your home/car/future)

• Free BitCoin Faucets list: http://www.landofbitcoin.com/free-bitcoin-faucets
• Get Free Bitcoins with 26 Website Faucets that Really Pay: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/get-free-bitcoins-with-8-website-faucets-that-really-pay
• Bitcoin Street Faucet: http://faucet.bitcoin.st/

Ethereum

• Ethereum: https://ethereum.org/en/ | Price Chart | Candlestick
• MyEtherWallet: https://www.myetherwallet.com/

Monero

• Monero: https://www.getmonero.org/ | SRC | DOCS | Price Chart | Candlestick

OpenTransactions

OpenTransactions is a solid, easy-to-use, financial cryptography and digital cash library. The library includes an Open Source operational API, Client and Server for processing untraceable digital money transactions.

• Open Transactions: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/
• Open Transactions -- A proposal for untraceable digital cash: http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2010-09/msg00032.html
• Sample Currency Contract: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki/Sample-Currency-Contract
• Moneychanger - Java GUI for payment transactions: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Moneychanger (create pseudonyms, issue currencies, open accounts, withdraw cash, deposit cash, write and deposit cheques, and purchase vouchers)

OS Currency

• OpenSource Currency (OScurrency): http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/
• OScurrency DEMO -- OpenTransact - Testing OAuth Scopes with Artifice and Cucumber: http://demo.opensourcecurrency.org/

AltCoins

Alternatives to the BitCoin as a digital cryptocurrency are commonly abbreviated as AltCoins.

• AltCoins INDEX: http://altcoins.com/
• Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations: http://coinmarketcap.com/
• Facebook -- Project Libra: https://coingape.com/facebook-globalcoin-project-libra-explained/

• Ravencoin: https://ravencoin.org/ | WALLETS

• List of alt coins: https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

Stablecoins

Stablecoins aim to solve the volatility problem where prices change constantly and often drastically, by tying the cryptocurrency to some underlying assets (such as fiat money of a particular currency, gold, silver, energy holdings, real estate, etc). Whereas BitCoin has seen changes in price of more than 20% within a single trading day, the most successful "stablecoins" have less than 2.5% change in value per week (if not per quarter or fiscal year).

• How Stable Are Stablecoins? – All That Glitters Is Not Gold: https://invao.org/how-stable-are-stablecoins/

Decentralized

• Dero: https://dero.io/

Adult AltCoins

Some AltCoins exist purely for paying for access to Adult materials (i.e. pornography & related games, virtual reality experiences, etc).

• See: wikipedia: Titcoin or Other Adult Crypto-currencies

Proprietary

Ripple

• Ripple: https://ripple.com/xrp/
• XRP: https://ripple.com/xrp/ | [ https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/cryptocurrency/xrpPrice charts]

RippleProject

• Ripple: http://ripple-project.org/
• wikipedia: Ripple (payment protocol)

Interac e-Transfer

• Interac e-Transfer: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_eTransfer.php
• Interac Online: http://www.interac.ca/merchants/productsandservices_ol_main.php (PayPal alternative)
• Interac Online Acquirer Service Fees: http://www.interac.ca/merchants/productsandservices_ol_pricing.php:

PayPal

• PayPal: http://www.paypal.com

For more, see section: PayPal

MintChip

• MintChip: http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/
• MintCHIP Challenge: https://mintchipchallenge.devpost.com/

VoucherSafe

• VoucherSafe: http://www.voucher-safe.com/
• VoucherSafe wiki: http://www.voucher-safe.org

SnapPay

• SnapPAY: http://www.snap-pay.com/

Central Bank Digital Currency

• wikipedia: Central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Exchanges

• Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/
• Binance: https://binance.com/
• Gemini: https://www.gemini.com/

Interest-based

Interest-based cryptocurrency holdings services

• BlockFI: https://blockfi.com/
• Celsius: https://celsius.network/
• Nexo: https://nexo.io/

P2P trading

• HODL Hodl: https://hodlhodl.com/
• Unchained Capital: https://unchained-capital.com/
• Strike: https://strike.me/
• BISQ - Decentralized Exchange: https://bisq.network/

Wallets

• What is a Cryptocurrency Wallet?: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/cryptocurrency-wallet-guide/

Hardware

• Best "hardware" cryptocurrency wallets: https://www.finder.com/cryptocurrency/wallets

Trezor

• Trezor: https://www.trezor.io

Software

• BlockChain.info (now BlockChain.com): https://www.blockchain.com/wallet | Currency Explorer
• FreeWallet: https://freewallet.org/

• Atomic Wallet: https://atomicwallet.io/
• MetaMask - Browser plugin based BTC/ETH Wallet: https://metamask.io/ | FF - PLUGIN
• Ethos: https://www.ethos.io/ | CRYPTO LIST

Exodus

• Exodus Wallet: https://www.exodus.com/

Cloud

• CoinBase - Wallet: https://wallet.coinbase.com/
• Coinomi: https://www.coinomi.com/en/ | SUPPORT
• eToro: https://www.etoro.com/
• Casa: https://keys.casa/
• Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/
• River Financial: https://river.com/
• SwanL https://www.swanbitcoin.com/

Tools

• Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/
• MyEtherWallet: https://www.myetherwallet.com/

CrytoCurrency Exchange

• CEX: https://cex.io/
• Coinbase: http://www.coinbase.com
• Bitstamp: https://www.bitstamp.net/
• Gemini: https://www.gemini.com/
• Kraken: https://www.kraken.com/
• Binance: https://www.binance.com/

NFT exchange

• KnownOrigin: https://knownorigin.io/
• MakersPlace: https://makersplace.com/
• OpenSea: https://opensea.io/
• Rarible: https://rarible.com/
• Nimiq: https://www.nimiq.com/

Mining

• What Is Crypto Mining, and How Does It Work?: https://www.howtogeek.com/771391/what-is-crypto-mining-and-how-does-it-work/

Resources

• Coindesk -- cryptocurrency price charts: https://www.coindesk.com/
• Reddit -- CryptoCurrency: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/
• MIT -- OpenCourseware - BlockChain & BitCoin lectures: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall-2018/video-lectures/
• ElectrumX - BlockChain index server: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx (reimplementation of original "electrum-server")

• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) - Guide for cryptocurrency users and tax professionals: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/compliance/digital-currency/cryptocurrency-guide.html
• United States government -- Internal Revenue Services (IRS) - Virtual Currency tax guidelines: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/virtual-currencies

• Digital Yuan (e-CNY): https://ecnydigitalyuan.com/ | Blockspot entry (also known as the " Digital renminbi", it is China's only official "state/bank-backed" Digital Currency)

• US Federal Reserve -- Money and Payments - The U.S.Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation (REPORT, January 2022): https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf (tell-tale sign of US plan for its own CBDC, not to be outdone by China's early rollout)

• El Salvador passes law to become 1st country to adopt BitCoin (BTC) as legal tender: https://www.axios.com/el-salvadore-first-country-adopt-bitcoin-legal-tender-vote-2bdd819b-620b-4385-af6b-261676883628.html
• Introducing Tonga - The Next Country To Adopt Bitcoin As Legal Tender?: https://www.publish0x.com/locosociocrypto/introducing-tonga-the-next-country-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-xwwdlpq

• Binance Trading Bot (SRC): https://github.com/chrisleekr/binance-trading-bot
• Welcome to HashLips ("NFT" digital art generator): https://github.com/HashLips/hashlips_art_engine

Tutorials

• A digital currency can be used for P2P barter and micropayments: http://ideas.mintchipchallenge.com/submissions/6778-a-digital-currency-can-be-used-for-p2p-barter-and-micropayments
• This Simple Graph Explains Why Unemployment Refuses to Go Down: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/this-simple-graph-explains-why-unemployment-refuses-to-go-down/242108/
• The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/1
• How to Accept Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency Payments on Your Website (Shopify .vs. Wordpress/WooCommerce .vs. CoinBase/PayPal/BitPay): https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/11324/how-to-accept-bitcoin-or-cryptocurrency-payments-on-your-website/
• How to Transfer Cryptocurrency: https://www.chainbits.com/cryptocurrencies/how-to-transfer-cryptocurrency/
• Best Cryptocurrency Investing Formula: Dollar Cost Averaging: https://cryptoticker.io/en/cryptocurrency-investing-dollar-cost-averaging/
• How To Withdraw Cryptocurrency To PayPal: https://usethebitcoin.com/withdraw-cryptocurrency-to-paypal/

• How I made a profit mining Ethereum on AWS: https://medium.com/@jamesjessian/how-i-made-a-profit-mining-ethereum-on-aws-2ffe3aab579
• What Is Staking in Crypto?: https://www.howtogeek.com/796608/what-is-staking-in-crypto/

External Links

• wikipedia: Digital currency
• wikipedia: Electronic money
• wikipedia: Banknote
• wikipedia: Full-reserve banking
• wikipedia: Digital currency exchanger
• wikipedia: Digital gold currency
• wikipedia: Gold as an investment
• wikipedia: ecash
• wikipedia: Bit (money)
• wikipedia: Consensus_(computer_science)#Some_consensus_protocols
• The Cashless Society - Alex Jones on Economics 101: http://www.infowars.com/the-cashless-society-alex-jones-on-economics-101/
• Why cash is losing its currency: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57404086/why-cash-is-losing-its-currency/
• A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most People Would Ever Dare To Imagine: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/a-cashless-society-may-be-closer-than-most-people-would-ever-dare-to-imagine
• Beyond the Cashless Society - IBM’s Vision for the Future: http://www.infowars.com/beyond-the-cashless-society-ibms-vision-for-the-future/
• Author envisions a cash-free world in years to come: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120322/david-wolman-the-end-of-money-cashless-society-120322/
• What Is a Layer 2 Protocol in Crypto?: https://www.howtogeek.com/794948/what-is-a-layer-2-protocol-in-crypto/
• BitCoin and the “Wild West”: http://modeledbehavior.com/2010/06/30/bitcoin-and-the-wild-west/
• The Household Survey: A Note on the December 2, 2011 Report: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/12/the-household-survey-a-note-on-the-december-2-2011-report.html
• The Bitcoin Crash: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/08/07/the-bitcoin-crash/
• Interview - How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/interview-bitcoin.php
• This Bitcoin Business Is Entirely Out of Hand: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/06/bitcoin-currency-salary-thief-drug-website/38860/
• Bitcoin - Did you ever ask yourself why... (no academic researcher has gone near BitCoin with even a 10' pole): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667869
• The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation: http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/11/the-economics-of-bitcoin-why-mainstream-economist-lie-about-deflation/
• What do economists think of Bitcoin?: http://www.quora.com/What-do-economists-think-of-Bitcoin
• Bitcoin, the Darknet Economy, and the Low Over-Head Revolution: http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/2011/06/09/Bitcoin,-the-Darknet-Economy,-and-the-Low-Over-Head-Revolution
• Summary of Economist view on BitCoin: https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/cyv3ruoT5N7
• Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks: http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/
• The BitCoin Bubble: http://timothyblee.com/2011/04/18/the-bitcoin-bubble/
• DeepBit pool temporarily reaches critical 50% threshold: http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/5328668205/deepbit-50-percent-threshold
• Bitcoin - An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857
• Uniqueness of the price level in monetary growth models with rational expectations: http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jetheo/v7y1974i1p53-65.html
• Jerry Brito defends BitCoin - Bitcoin intermediaries, and information control: http://techliberation.com/2011/04/20/bitcoin-intermediaries-and-information-control/
• Bitcoin shows the value of not depending on its maker: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/1007/1224305381674.html
• The Crypto-Currency - Bitcoin: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_davis
• Unemployment, Recessions and Barter - A Test: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/03/unemployment-recessions-and-barter-a-test.html
• MIT - Cryptocurrency: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38392/
• Did A Reporter Just Solve THE Bitcoin Mystery? http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery
• Third Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitomat Lost Their Wallet, Over 17,000 Bitcoins Missing: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoin-exchange-bitomat-lost-their-wallet-over-17000-bitcoins-missing/
• Not Everything Is As It Seems At Mt. Gox : http://www.btcnn.com/2011/06/not-everything-is-as-it-seems-at-mt-gox.html
• I can connect FXCM forex trading platform to Mt Gox. Anybody interested? : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10736.0 (gave me the idea to provide the exchange right in the client)
• Faked Bitcoins Caused Price Crash, Exchange Reveals: http://www.pcworld.com/article/234890/faked_bitcoins_caused_price_crash_exchange_reveals.html
• Virtual Currency? Bitcoin digs into a $131M USD total: http://www.ispyce.org/2011/06/virtual-currency-bitcoin-digs-into-a-131m-usd-total.html
• Bitcoin is not decentralized: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/bitcoin-is-not-decentralized/
• BitCoin in Layman's Terms: http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/How-does-Bitcoin-work-in-laymans-terms
• Virtual money created by CPU cycles: http://lwn.net/Articles/414452/
• Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem: http://timothyblee.com/2011/04/19/bitcoins-collusion-problem/
• Bitcoin Community Takes an Interest in Occupy Wall Street: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/07/bitcoin-community-takes-an-interest-in-occupy-wall-street/
• From BitCoin to MintChip: http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2012/04/10/from-bitcoin-to-mintchip-repost/
• PayPal welcomes penny's demise: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=66823
• Snappay promises quick, easy mobile payments: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=66870
• Facebook's Payment Whales: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-08/facebooks-payment-whales
• A History Lesson as Canada Tries to Digitize Coins: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-15/a-history-lesson-as-canada-tries-to-digitize-coins
• Peter Sunde of PirateBay - We need cash for anonymous transactions: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/19/future-of-money
• Mobile wallet competition heats up: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/story/2012-02-28/mobile-payments-mwc-isis/53285554/1
• Google Wallet vs Isis is coming soon: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/google-wallet-isis-mobile-wallet-nfc.html
• What Does Your Wallet Say About You? (INFOGRAPHIC): http://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-your-wallet-say-about-you-2012-4
• How your mobile phone can be turned into a credit card - it could mean the end of small cash payments in 5 years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131858/Barclaycard-PayTag-How-mobile-phone-turned-credit-card.html#ixzz1sXjEVI1R
• Central Bankers Inflate Fiat While Plans for One World Currency Are Finalized: http://www.infowars.com/central-bankers-inflate-fiat-while-plans-for-one-world-currency-are-finalized/
• WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/
• MintChip Misses the Point of Digital Currency: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/12/mintchip-misses-the-point-of-digital-currency/
• Brainwallet - The Ultimate in Mobile Money: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/12/brainwallet-the-ultimate-in-mobile-money/
• Bitcoin Funded Debit Cards: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/05/07/bitcoin-funded-debit-cards/
• Top 10 Bitcoin Statistics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/07/31/top-10-bitcoin-statistics/
• Digital Currency as an Alternative Investment in Financial Crisis: http://www.slideshare.net/cjwells/digital-currency-systemscwellsbitpublishdv02
• This Pizza Cost $750,000 (thanks to early BitCoin seller): http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/this-pizza-is-worth-750000
• Bitcoin soars: What you need to know about the virtual currency: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/balance-sheet/bitcoin-soars-know-virtual-currency-184540357.html
• A Bit expensive: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/03/daily-chart-12
• CIBC - Interact e-Transfer: https://www.cibc.com/ca/student-life/products/email-money-transfer.html
• Transferring Money Online Between 2 Accounts at Different Banks: http://forums.redflagdeals.com/transferring-money-online-between-2-accounts-different-banks-867351/
• Paypal tried to double dip me on shipping charges or CIBC stealing money from my acc?: http://forums.redflagdeals.com/paypal-tried-double-dip-me-shipping-charges-cibc-stealing-money-my-acc-454159/
• FREE way to transfer money electronically between banks in Canada?: http://forums.redflagdeals.com/free-way-transfer-money-electronically-between-banks-canada-945180/
• Amazon challenges PayPal with ‘Login and Pay on Amazon' one-click option: http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-challenges-paypal-with-login-and-pay-one-click-option-7000021710/
• 12 Money Concepts You Should Master Before Turning 30: http://www.savvysugar.com/Personal-Finance-Goals-Achieve-Before-30-32164845
• After Obama's cybersecurity order threatens Snowden fund, bitcoin donations spike: http://www.zdnet.com/article/snowden-donations-rocket-after-obamas-cybersecurity-order-outlaws-fund/
• Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme -- the Internet’s favorite currency will collapse: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/04/bitcoin_is_a_ponzi_scheme_the_internet_currency_will_collapse.html
• Why BitCoin will collapse in price: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361037.0
• The Collapse Of Bitcoin: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-collapse-of-bitcoin
• BitCoin .vs. Facebook Payments: http://i.imgur.com/sslGPoW.png
• Bitcoin - Bubble? Maybe. The Wave of the Future? Definitely!: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131203194611-3895280-bitcoin-bubble-maybe-the-wave-of-the-future-definitely
• Bitcoin's Volatility Problem - Why Today's Selloff Won't Be the Last: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-05/bitcoins-volatility-problem-why-todays-sell-off-wont-be-the-last
• Why Bitcoin matters: http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/why-bitcoin-matters
• Overstock.com boasts it will be the first online retailer to accept Bitcoin: http://www.zdnet.com/overstock-com-boasts-it-will-be-the-first-online-retailer-to-accept-bitcoin-7000024998/
• Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/13/bitcoin-anonymity-upgrade-zerocoin-to-become-its-own-cryptocurrency/
• The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460 Million Disaster: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/
• Psychology Charts & Sentiment Cycles: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/03/psychology-charts-sentiment-cycles-updated/
• The Face Behind Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto revealed?!: http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
• Controversy over 'discovery' of Bitcoin creator: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26469895
• Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Bitcoin's Mysterious Creator Revealed as Nick Szabo: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/satoshi-nakamoto-nick-szabo-bitcoin-creator-revealed-527078#!
• Nakamoto's Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin's Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/
• List of all cryptocoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0
• Cryptocoin Market cap: http://coinmarketcap.com/
• Cryptocoin charts: https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/info | MARKET INFO
• Cryptoin clients: http://www.cryptohits.info/
• AltCoins list: http://www.cryptocurrency.org/altcoins/
• The Top 30 Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations In One Place: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/27/the-top-30-crypto-currency-market-capitalizations-in-one-place/
• List of alternative cryptocurrencies: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies
• Comprehensive Crypto-Currency Database: http://crypt.la/crypto-currency-database/
• Keeping Track of the Coins - All The Best Cryptocurrency Websites: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/5763/keeping-track-of-the-coins-all-the-best-cryptocurrency-websites/
• Exposing the Ripple ScamOpenCoin Inc's Cash In on Bitcoin's Popularity: http://ripplescam.org
• wikipedia: Ripple (payment protocol)
• Ripple: https://ripple.com/ (by Mt.Gox initial founder who sold company in 2011)
• OpenCoin: http://opencoin.org/ (BitCoin and other cryptocurrency exchange, founded by Jed McCaleb)

• OpenCoin Formats & Protocol: https://github.com/OpenCoin/opencoin-historic/blob/master/standards/protocol.txt
• New Image Hosting Service Pays Thousands of Uploaders in Bitcoin: https://news.bitcoin.com/new-image-hosting-service-pays-thousands-of-uploaders-in-bitcoin/
• Facebook Confers With Winklevoss Twins On Cryptocurrency -- Report: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/336324/facebook-confers-with-winklevoss-twins-on-cryptocu.html
• Facebook's Cryptocurrency Project Faces Roadblocks: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/341496/facebooks-cryptocurrency-project-faces-roadblocks.html
• Blockchain Cuties game is blurring the distinction between developers and players. What does blockchain technology mean for the gaming industry?: https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-does-blockchain-technology-mean-for-the-gaming-industry-91816787776c
• 51% Attack Proves Blockchain Is ‘Unhackable’ The Way The Titanic Was ‘Unsinkable’: https://dzone.com/articles/51-attack-proves-blockchain-is-unhackable-the-way
• Energy as the ultimate currency (was: Re: Ripple): https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2013Nov/0095.html
• Web Payments -- The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice: http://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/
• Microsoft who funds ID2020 files patent for the buying and selling of bitcoin cryptocurrency that works by a device attached to the human body that interacts with a computer network system: https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/microsoft-patent-buying-selling-cryptocurrency-human-body-device-id2020-mark-of-the-beast-666/
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Spending Millions Creating Human Implantable Quantum Dot Microneedle Vaccine Mark With Data Storage: https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-spending-millions-creating-human-implantable-quantum-dot-microneedle-vaccine-mark-technology-with-data-storage/
• Microsoft Funds ID2020 And Files Patent for Device Attached to the Human Body For Buying And Selling Bitcoin – Patent #666: https://humansarefree.com/2020/04/microsoft-funds-id2020-and-filed-patent-for-a-device-connected-to-the-human-body-rfid-microchip-for-buying-and-selling-bitcoin.html
• Utah Becomes The Third U.S. Jurisdiction To Offer Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting https://medium.com/hackernoon/utah-becomes-the-third-u-s-jurisdiction-to-offer-blockchain-based-mobile-voting-2ba89e7fc74a

• From Open Banking to Open Finance: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/01/11/Open-Finance.html
• SEC's Hester Peirce on Bitcoin "You would have to shut down the internet...I don’t see how you could ban it....Be a foolish thing for the government to try to do that...We would be missing out on the innovation...": https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/mor4lo/secs_hester_peirce_on_bitcoin_you_would_have_to/
• Bitcoin Above $1 Trillion for 10 Days As Crypto Outgrows US Banking Industry: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ml8vkd/bitcoin_above_1_trillion_for_10_days_as_crypto/

• HERE IS THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SEND TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAY “BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”: https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
• What Is SafeMoon? How to Buy the New Cryptocurrency: https://www.newsweek.com/what-safemoon-how-buy-cryptocurrency-1577747
• 10 Superstar Traditional Investors Who Have Endorsed Bitcoin: https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/10-superstar-traditional-investors-who-have-endorsed-bitcoin-8265.htm
• Mark Cuban May Be More Involved with Crypto, 'Shitcoins' than First Thought: https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/mark-cuban-may-be-more-involved-with-crypto-shitcoins-than-f-9048.htm
• SoftBank Boss Glad to Be out of Bitcoin, But His Firm Is Still in the Game: https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/softbank-boss-glad-to-be-out-of-bitcoin-but-his-firm-is-stil-8377.htm
• John Lennon’s Son Says Bitcoin Brings Hope Amid 2020's 'Ocean of Destruction': https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/john-lennon-s-son-says-bitcoin-brings-hope-amid-2020-s-ocean-8398.htm
• Bitcoin Surges Despite Being Called a 'Particularly Vile Asset Class': https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-surges-despite-being-called-particularly-vile-asset-class-1577461
• Digital Dollar Project to launch five U.S. central bank digital currency pilots: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/digital-dollar-project-launch-five-us-central-bank-digital-currency-pilots-2021-05-03/
• India Looks to Ban Crypto, Considers Seizing Digital Assets: https://www.newsweek.com/india-looks-ban-crypto-considers-seizing-digital-assets-1576611
• Canadian Banks have banned crypto from 2018-2021: https://cryptalker.com/bitcoin-banks-canada/ ("National Bank" may still work)

• Full Information on Where and How to Buy Cryptocurrency: https://www.bitdegree.org/crypto/tutorials/how-to-buy-cryptocurrency
• Check out These 7 Crypto-Friendly Alternatives to Your Local Bank: https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/check-out-these-7-crypto-friendly-alternatives-to-your-local-5851.htm
• How to buy and to sell crypto coins without a bank account or why Dether goes mass?: https://medium.com/decentfund/how-to-buy-and-to-sell-cryptocurrency-without-a-bank-account-2ec8b85b082a
• Bitcoin Drops After Musk Suggests Tesla May Sell Holdings, Says It Hasn’t Yet: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dumps-after-elon-musk-fails-to-deny-that-tesla-could-sell-all-its-bitcoin-holdings
• Do the Rothschilds control Cryptocurrencies?: https://web.archive.org/web/20200519051205/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-29/do-rothschilds-control-cryptocurrencies
• Rockefellers Join Soros & Rothschilds In Cryptocurrency Investment Plans: https://web.archive.org/web/20200705174956/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-08/rockefeller-familys-3bn-vc-fund-unveils-plans-invest-crypto
• Vitalik Buterin Burns $6B in SHIB Tokens, Says He Doesn’t Want the ‘Power’: https://www.coindesk.com/vitalik-buterin-burns-6b-in-shib-tokens-says-he-doesnt-want-the-power
• Why The Media Should Care About Crypto: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/367798/why-the-media-should-care-about-crypto.html
• Why Mining Crypto Will Murder Your Laptop: https://www.howtogeek.com/783782/why-mining-crypto-will-murder-your-laptop/
• Ukraine is going all in on becoming the world’s premier crypto superpower. Now the Russia crisis is scaring investors: https://fortune.com/2022/01/31/ukraine-crypto-superpower-russia-crisis-investors-bitcoin/
• Bitcoin donations are pouring into Ukraine as Russia masses troops on the border: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/bitcoin-pouring-into-ukraine-as-russia-masses-troops-on-the-border.html
• Russia’s government and central bank agree to treat cryptos as currency: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/09/russia-s-government-and-central-bank-agree-to-treat-cryptos-as-currency
• Is It Too Late to Invest in Cryptocurrencies?: https://jjo.media/articles/is-it-too-late-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies
• Cryptocurrency Is Funding Ukraine's Defense—and Its Hacktivists: https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-russia-cryptocurrency-donations-hacktivism/
• From a BitCoin crash to regulatory crackdowns - Analysts give their top predictions for crypto in 2022: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/22/top-predictions-for-crypto-in-2022-from-bitcoin-crash-to-regulation.html
• Retrospective - Recent Coinbase Bug Bounty Award: https://blog.coinbase.com/retrospective-recent-coinbase-bug-bounty-award-9f127e04f060
• What Is a "Meme Coin"?: https://www.howtogeek.com/789262/what-is-a-meme-coin/ (and how its different from typical "Shitcoins")
• The CRYPTO tipping point has arrived as corporate banks SHATTER public trust… every person must become proficient in crypto or risk losing everything: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-08-the-crypto-tipping-point-has-arrived-as-corporate-banks-shatter-public-trust.html
• US warns of Lazarus hackers using malicious cryptocurrency apps: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-lazarus-hackers-using-malicious-cryptocurrency-apps/
• Whether it’s cash or cryptocurrency, Canadians are worried about their money: https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/04/24/whether-its-cash-or-cryptocurrency-canadians-are-worried-about-their-money.html
• "What the Dev?" podcast -- Episode 157 - How Web 3.0 will affect data portability: https://whatthedev.buzzsprout.com/673192/10507541-how-web-3-0-will-affect-data-portability-episode-157
• Panama Gets A Crypto Bill, Moves One Step Closer To Becoming An Official Crypto Nation: https://bitcoinist.com/panama-gets-a-crypto-bill-moves-one-step-closer-to-becoming-an-official-crypto-nation/
• Brazilian Senate Plenary Approves Bill Regulating Crypto Transactions: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/27/brazilian-senate-plenary-approves-bill-regulating-crypto-transactions/
• Fort Worth is the first city in the U.S. to mine bitcoin, and will run mining rigs out of city hall: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/fort-worth-tx-the-first-city-in-the-us-to-mine-bitcoin.html
• The week that shook crypto: https://worldnewsera.com/news/finance/stock-market/the-week-that-shook-crypto/ (so-called "stable coins" Terra/LUNA have crashed to zero)
• The LUNA and UST Crash Explained in 5 Charts: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/11/the-luna-and-ust-crash-explained-in-5-charts/
• Pierre Poilievre promises to quash Bank of Canada's foray into digital currency: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-bank-of-canada-audit-1.6433860
• In a pitch to cryptocurrency investors, Poilievre says he wants Canada to be 'blockchain capital of the world': https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-bitcoin-policy-1.6399986
• Crypto markets tumble and investors get their fingers burned: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crpto-tumble-column-don-pittis-1.6450411
• Crypto Token .vs. Coin - What’s the Difference?: https://www.howtogeek.com/799927/crypto-token-vs.-coin-whats-the-difference/
• How crypto giant Binance became a hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickers: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/fintech-crypto-binance-dirtymoney/
• How local high-tech crime units are tracking and seizing stolen cryptocurrency: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/local-high-tech-crime-units-are-tracking-seizing-stolen-cryptocurrency-rcna30655
• US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-06/us-probes-binance-over-token-that-is-now-world-s-fifth-largest#xj4y7vzkg
• How Cynthia Lummis, a rancher and grandmother, was crowned the Senate’s queen of crypto: https://rollcall.com/2022/02/15/cynthia-lummis-senate-crypto/
• Senators Propose Industry-Friendly Cryptocurrency Bill: https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-to-propose-industry-friendly-cryptocurrency-bill-11654592401
• What Happened to Celsius, the Crypto Lender?: https://www.howtogeek.com/811412/what-happened-to-celsius-the-crypto-lender/

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