Author: Stefan Stankovic

Naval Ravikant: Complete Profile and Meta List of All Things @Naval

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At Unblock, we believe that blockchain technology can thrive on a foundation of ethics and sustainability. Naval Ravikant, one of the most influential personalities of the business and crypto ecosphere, perfectly lines up with this belief. On multiple occasions, this brilliant individual has proclaimed that he firmly believes in the ethical building of wealth.

Over the years, he has singlehandedly managed to popularize ICOs and allow people to accept Bitcoin as a global crowdfunding instrument. Through AngelList and Coinlinst, Ravikant has democratized VC funding and helped hundreds of startups find venture partners and capital that led them to success.

This profile will help you learn more about his person and his journey to success. We will delve into his ponderings and beliefs, and try to single out some valuable lessons from his teachings.

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What Is Ethereum – A Complete Guide to the #1 Smart Contract Platform

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If you have ever wanted to get an answer to the question “What is Ethereum?”, you couldn’t have come to a better place. This article delves deep into the basics of the #1 smart contract platform. It will attempt to give you a good understanding of the Ethereum blockchain and its cryptocurrency, ETH.

So, what’s the big deal behind Ethereum? Isn’t it just another cryptocurrency like Bitcoin? Well, not exactly. There are actually some good reasons behind the hype. Ethereum is much more than just a digital currency for transferring value over the internet. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap provides us with a worldwide supercomputer that developers can use to decentralize almost every industry known to man, starting with finances.

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RingCT vs zk-SNARK: The Ultimate Guide to Monero and Zcash Privacy Mechanisms

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It’s tragic that only ten years after the advent of Bitcoin we’re already making a genuine distinction between so-called private and non-private cryptocurrencies. Public-key cryptography is what made cryptocurrency possible and the founders of this revolutionary technology had only one thing in mind when they created it and that is, you guessed it – privacy.

The birth of the cryptocurrency represents a historical moment that cannot be portrayed as just a dot on the graph of technological progress. No. Bitcoin is a political statement. A statement for privacy and financial sovereignty. It didn’t just come out of the clear blue sky, and it wasn’t just Satoshi’s eureka moment; the idea of cryptocurrency has deep philosophical and ideological roots sprawling back to the Cypherpunk movement of the early 90s.

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Who is Gavin Andresen – Complete Profile

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Gavin Andresen is one of the most influential Bitcoin developers and “an all-around geek”. One of the household names in the Bitcoin community and the successor of Satoshi Nakamoto as lead maintainer of Bitcoin Core – Gavin has been with the project since its early days.

This article isn’t your traditional, emotionally charged opinion piece; it is, rather, a fact-based, coherent chronology that aims to provide you with the most notable events in Gavin’s involvement with Bitcoin. What you take of it is entirely up to you. Let’s dive right in!

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Cryptocurrency Regulation in the European Union

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Cryptocurrency regulation in the European Union is still in its early stages. While the EU is working on the general guidelines regarding crypto regulation, individual member states have undertaken different regulatory approaches according to their specific legal traditions and practices. This article is focused on the legal documents directly regulating, or otherwise affecting cryptocurrencies in the European Union at the “federal” level – without examining the different approaches undertaken by all 28 member states.

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Bitcoin Security: How to secure your Bitcoin Transactions and Investments

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Responsibility is the price of freedom

Let’s be honest – cryptocurrencies aren’t user-friendly just yet. Securing crypto assets isn’t as easy as we’d like it to be; it takes some skill, dedication and a bit of patience to secure your bitcoins properly.

Every now and then we hear a newsworthy story of some guy who lost a considerable amount of money because he lost the private keys to his wallet, got hacked, or the third-party service provider that had custody over his private keys got hacked.

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Cryptocurrency Consensus Algorithms Bible: Everything you Need to Know

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In this article we’ll dive deep into the what, why, and how of consensus algorithms – the most overlooked component of every successful cryptocurrency.

First off, we will take a look at the Byzantine Generals’ Problem as one of the major issues a distributed network must overcome to function properly, and then we will move on to some of the most widely used consensus algorithms and look at the way they work in greater detail.

While this isn’t exactly a casual read, we promise all cryptocurrency enthusiasts (newbies and experts alike) that there’s valuable information ahead that will surely broaden your understandings on the subject.

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