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Tiena Sekharan
May 14, 20214 min read
Why is it so hard to ban bitcoin?
It is in the interests of central banks, legacy traditional banks, politicians, and weapons manufacturers to ban bitcoin. With bitcoin: *...
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Tiena Sekharan
Mar 30, 202114 min read
Bitcoin criticisms debunked!
Anyone familiar with centralized currencies and monetary systems has to adopt a starkly different mindset to understand bitcoin. Wait! It...
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Tiena Sekharan
Mar 1, 20216 min read
Crypto ban- India's Prisoner's Dilemma problem
Image source - Yahoo Finance If a battle can’t be won, don’t fight it - Sun Tzu The only way the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) can ban...
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Tiena Sekharan
Feb 17, 20216 min read
Is Quantum Computing a threat to Bitcoin?
Image source - MIT Ever since Google gained “Quantum Supremacy”, i.e it's Sycamore Quantum Computer solved in 200 seconds what would take...
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Tiena Sekharan
Jan 27, 20215 min read
The real crypto opportunity for Wall Street- "Yield Farming"
Cryptos are attracting the attention of Wall Street. Banks, asset managers, and corporate treasuries are building crypto infrastructure...
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Tiena Sekharan
Jan 15, 20216 min read
Launching a Token? Answer the following questions first.
Tokens are digital assets that are created, issued, and managed on a blockchain. There are over 2000 cryptocurrencies out there. If your...
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Tiena Sekharan
Dec 30, 20205 min read
Why you should buy bitcoin and not GBTC
Image source - ycharts Retail investors have been gaining exposure to bitcoin through the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Finding it...
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Tiena Sekharan
Dec 8, 20204 min read
What is the Lightning Network?
Remember the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas back in 2010? His name is Laszlo Hanyecz. In 2018, he bought 2 more pizzas with...
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Tiena Sekharan
Nov 25, 20205 min read
China- Crypto Superpower or a Crypto Nobody?
China is at a point where it needs to make decisions regarding cryptocurrencies that will have long-run consequences. Based on news in...
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Tiena Sekharan
Nov 10, 20204 min read
What is JPM Coin?
JPM Coin went live last week when it was used by a large unnamed JP Morgan tech client to send payments around the world. Woohoo! Why am...
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Tiena Sekharan
Nov 6, 20207 min read
Clearing misinformation around CBDCs - Central Bank Digital Currency
There seems to be a lot of misinformation about Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The perception is that it is somewhat similar to...
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Tiena Sekharan
Oct 30, 20204 min read
Can Bitcoin touch US$55,000?
Ever since Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, it has mainly been retail investors who have shown an interest in this...
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Tiena Sekharan
Oct 14, 20205 min read
What are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)?
Image Source - CryptoKitties When I first heard about CryptoKitties, I was a bitcoin skeptic and I immediately thought to myself “This is...
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Tiena Sekharan
Sep 23, 20204 min read
The time is ripe for Ethereum to move to Proof-of-Stake
There is an urgent need to find solutions to the scaleability problems plaguing the Ethereum network. High gas prices and clogged...
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Tiena Sekharan
Sep 17, 20202 min read
What is "Staking"?
Image Source - Staking In a sentence - “Staking is a viable way to earn passive income by locking cryptocurrency in a Proof-of-Stake...
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Tiena Sekharan
Sep 16, 20205 min read
What is a "Flash loan"? Why is it so infamous?
Image Source - Flash Loan Before we look at flash loans, let us first remind ourselves how a normal loan works => If I own a house worth...
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Tiena Sekharan
Sep 1, 20204 min read
How to launder Bitcoins?
Image Source - Hacker Who needs Privacy? A citizen might want to keep her transactions hidden from say an authoritarian government or a...
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Tiena Sekharan
Aug 27, 20204 min read
What happened at MakerDAO on 12-13 Mar'2020?
In March this year, cryptocurrencies like Ether suddenly fell ~50% on the back of the coronavirus. The domino effect of the collapse in...
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Tiena Sekharan
Aug 12, 20202 min read
What is a 51% Attack?
Let's start with a brief reminder of how Proof-of-work consensus protocol works in the bitcoin blockchain Transactions are stored in...
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Tiena Sekharan
Aug 10, 20203 min read
What is Baseline Protocol?
If one wants to use blockchain for storing business process data, several questions/concerns crop up. 1. How will privacy be maintained?...
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