…and how not to miss the bus? — If you are anyone like me, you might have had a lot of people talking about blockchain and decentralization in the year 2017, but as we made progress through the year 2018, all of them went silent one by one. The prices kept going down, and so did the voice…

See where the caveman has arrived since those cave paintings. — What makes human beings different from the rest of the animal species? Of course, the evolved language could be one reason, but the right reason is how we use the language. …

Aren’t they supposed to be global unified currencies? — In the last six months while I’ve been actively writing about blockchain and cryptos, there’s one question that people keep asking me “Why is the price of Bitcoin different between countries? Does that mean I can make money from arbitrage?” The short answer to that question is, ‘Yes.’ Of course…

Here’s the entire year in a single article. — / An yearly roundup by — Nitansh Rastogi & Mohit Mamoria / It’s almost been a decade since the anonymous person (or group of people) by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto floated the idea of a P2P electronic cash system dubbed Bitcoin. While it was initially limited to geeks, software…

After all, what was going on with Bitcoin in the last few months? — It looks like, in the last few months, Bitcoin has made friends with forking. When I wrote about Bitcoin forking the last time, I didn’t expect there would be this many so soon. …

The simplest explanation available on the internet. — Blockchains are slow. And therefore, expensive. If I had to send you some Bitcoins, you’d receive them in about a couple of hours and I’d have paid a heavy transaction fee too. With such a reputation, how will Blockchains take over the world? Any idea that can solve the non-scalability…

My lessons, being an introvert founder. — Introvert. Had zero friends. Was afraid of talking to strangers. Writing code since I was 11. Then, I started building businesses and had to sell. I knew I was fucked. But I soon learned. And I thought, the lessons I learned might help another introvert entrepreneur somewhere in the other…

here’s how. — Almost a decade ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, silently disrupted trust-providing organizations, like banks, with an eight-page long research paper describing how money can be decentralized (through Bitcoin). At the time, not many people understood the potential that those eight pages concealed within themselves. No, I am not…

Can we use blockchains to economically disincentivize the hackers? — I am often asked, “How is blockchain different from the other p2p networks that have existed long before?” To this, my answer is, “Technically, nothing. Economically, everything.” As soon as the words leave my mouth, a weird expression turns up on their face. …