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irieland (25)in #berlin • 6 years ago
I was attacked in Berlin once. This is how it played out
I’ve been assaulted once in my life, and I hope it remains the only time. I never did find out the reason for the assault, or who did it. I didn't report the incident afterwards…
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irieland (25)in #cricket • 7 years ago
Cricket in Ireland...
The Bangladeshi taxi driver in Dubai finds out I'm from Ireland and asks me if I know Kevin O'Brien. I don't. Who is he? "The cricket player!" says he, amazed that I don't know…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
14 The Money Creators
So where does that leave us? In the early months of 2018, the bitcoin price bobbed around in the range around $10,000, cheering up developers who felt the cryptocurrency needed…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
13 Bitcoin cash and Ripples of Subterfuge
Bitcoin has a built-in problem. Each new block is limited in size to one megabyte of information, which in effect limits the number of transactions in each block, meaning that…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
12 The builders
Focusing on the price of bitcoin and its ups and downs, as tends to happen in media reporting about bitcoin, tends to miss out on the fact that an entire infrastructure has grown…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
11 What the f#*% is blockchain?
The idea of a blockchain began to form in the early 1990s but it was Satoshi Nakamoto who incarnated the first working blockchain in 2009 with the launch of bitcoin. A…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
10 Chainalysis
In 2018, it’s still common for authorities to comment confidently that bitcoin is mostly used by criminals to launder money. The better educated understood that only a…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
Memesville
It’s not a surprise that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, suddenly finding himself the target of a media story, wore a slightly comical hangdog expression, and bitcoiners with Satoshi…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
9 Satoshi Nakamoto
There was good reason for Satoshi Nakamoto to disguise his real identity when he came up with the idea for bitcoin. Governments don’t take kindly to those who contravene state…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
8 The Internet of Money
When the early Internet was being built, a philosophical question emerged: who should own the software? The radical fringe of the hippie generation of the 1960s, which crossed in…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
7 Finance on steroids
There was a time, within the last three decades, when financial news stayed in the financial press. Banking, thought to be work for conservative, cautious managers, was…
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irieland (25)in #winklevoss • 7 years ago
6 The Winklevoss brothers
In the late 1990s, as people were discovering the potential of peer-to-peer networks on the internet, a site called FriendsReunited offered to re-unite you with former…
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irieland (25)in #winklevoss • 7 years ago
5 The early players
Bitcoin’s early promoters relied initially on chat forums to build support, but found also some willing media support, mostly from digital culture blogs. Many of these early…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
4 In exchange...
In the early days of the internet, getting information into and out of the net was complicated, unless you knew some coding. Web browsers solved that problem, providing an…
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irieland (25)in #darknet • 7 years ago
3 The dark net
For an underground online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illegal services and products, the Silk Road was an implausibly grand name. The idea, though, was brilliant, and…
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irieland (25)in #mtgox • 7 years ago
2 The story of Mount Gox
The story of MtGox, the first major bitcoin site, is surely worthy of a film. The bitcoin exchange was but the newest version of a simple technology that was already rocking the…
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irieland (25)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
1 Bitcoin: the first ten years
On Tuesday 28 November 2017, the Financial Times ran its first print headline story about bitcoin: “Bitcoin record triggers unease among traditional marketplaces”. The record…
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irieland (25)in #sleng • 7 years ago
15 The Digital Dancehall Era
Few grasped it at the time, but reggae is arguably the only style of music that effortlessly transcended the digital divide once synthesisers and programmable drums became part…
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irieland (25)in #gregory • 7 years ago
14 - They called it dancehall
Okay, so maybe you've figured out where this is going as we head towards the digital breakthrough in the mid-1980s which totally divided reggae fans, many of whom regarded the…
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irieland (25)in #reggae • 7 years ago
13 - The DJ is here to stay
Version 'pon version... With a library of killer reggae cuts built through the 1970s, a good sound could play an original cut, a DJ version, an instrumental and a dub of the…
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