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Ethereum's Road to $2K: 3 Reasons to Be Bullish

Ether recently broke above $1,400 for the first time in two years. Here are three events that could push the price even higher.

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Ethereum 2.0 Explained

With the launch of every new blockchain comes a new block explorer website to understand. Ethereum 2.0 is no different.

Visualization of gas prices on Ethereum, 2019

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Sure, Bitcoin’s Price Is Cool, but Bitcoin’s Technology Is Hot

Getting bitcoin to the moon requires some serious technology.

Space rocket launch earth spaceship moon.Space exploration program freight carrier vehicle. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

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ENCORE: Luke Gromen on the History and (Declining) Future of the Global Dollar System

As some start to wonder about a post-Bretton Woods economic system, macro analyst Luke Gromen explains how that post-World War II system came to be.

Breakdown 11.27 Luke Gromen post-Bretton Woods economic system

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Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)

Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets that require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.

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How the World Stopped Producing Enough Money, Feat. Emil Kalinowski

In a year when the popular narrative says money printing went crazy, the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University” says the problem is actually too little money.

Breakdown 11.6.20 Emil Kalinowski

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A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein

One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.

Breakdown Jacob Goldstein Planet Money 11-3-20

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Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)

A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase.

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The Inevitable Marriage of Yield Farming and NFTs, Explained

NFTs had managed to be expensive but they had not managed to be liquid – not until DeFi thinking intervened.

Details from four NFTs.

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