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Happy Birthday Bitcoin

12 years. Birthday wishes from Charles, who captures the sentiment and spirit perfectly. The cryptocurrency innovation that the Bitcoin has unleashed is just starting. Here’s looking forward to the next 12 years.

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Oracles!

Want to know about Oracles and how they will work on Cardano? This is the introduction you have been waiting for…

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The Island, The Ocean, and The Pond (Soon)

Charles has just recorded a whiteboard session that helps explain how smart contracts will be coming to Cardano. Really inspiring stuff (as ever). The Pond is Ethereum, The Island is Cardano Plutus/Marlowe, The Ocean is all development languages… Sometimes it’s a bit hard to take in the scale of Charles and the IOHK guys vision.…

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Coin Bureau Cardano update

Coin Bureau have a great Youtube channel. Really enjoyable presentation, technically strong, and good analysis. This recent update on Cardano is well worth watching.

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Bitcoin Power Consumption

Some really nice work on the energy consumption of Bitcoin from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University. The current estimate is 10GW, with a lower bound of 3.94GW, and upper bound of 16.78GW. That’s 5 orders of magnitude higher than Cardano. If we assume approximately 50W per pool (reasonable for an efficient modern…