Footnotes
- 2 “The Story of Fermat's Last Theorem” by Simon Singh and John Lynch, published on the dailymotion.com website, accessed on February 28, 2023. (Link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1btavd)
- 6 See, http://www.impervious.ai/
- 7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
- 9 https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/0693lead.pdf p. 573
- 11 https://blockstream.com/satellite/
- 13 https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20140209/
- 15 For more information about this unique consensus method, see, https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf. 16 For more information about PoET: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/proof-elapsed-time-cryptocurrency.asp
- 17 The EO specifically forbids “the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
- 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTvg
- 19 https://cointelegraph.com/news/inflation-bug-still-a-danger-to-more-than-half-of-all-bitcoin-full-nodes
- 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff#Investment_scandal
- 21 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shopin-eyal-idINKBN1YG22F
- 22 https://twitter.com/shopinapp/status/954483289674235904
- 23 https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/xrp-a-history
- 24 https://www.coindesk.com/company/ripple-labs/
- 25 https://www.coinopsy.com/dead-coins/tenebrix/
- 26 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/this-is-how-an-eastern-townships-artist-is-using-bitcoin-to-heat-his-multimedia-studio-1.5299600
- 27 https://www.trustnodes.com/2022/07/22/vitalik-puts-pruning-on-ethereums-roadmap
- 28 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/08/04/guide-to-using-nfts-in-real-estate/?sh=3d76996b5e8a
- 29 https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/317465/
- 30 https://uniswap.org/whitepaper-v3.pdf
- 31 https://tezos.com/whitepaper.pdf
- 32 https://news.bitcoin.com/many-facts-dorian-nakamoto-satoshi/
- 33 https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/ethereum-classic-etc-vs-eth
- 34 https://lbry.com/
- 35 https://lbry.tech/spec
- 37 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/02/19/okcoin-delists-bitcoin-cash-bitcoin-sv-to-avoid-misleading-new-bitcoin-clients/
- 38 https://www.nber.org/papers/w29396
- 39 See https://bitcoinist.com/stratum-v2-bitcoin-mining-software-gets-facelift/ and https://braiins.com/stratum-v2
- 40 https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243
- 41 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959522000443
- 42 https://www.wired.com/story/iceland-bitcoin-mining-gallery/
- 43 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/26/exxon-mining-bitcoin-with-crusoe-energy-in-north-dakota-bakken-region.html
- 44 https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/03/04/bitcoin-coders-send-international-lightning-payment-over-ham-radio/
- 45 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3243734.3243848
- 46 See https://www.bitcoinpos.net/
- 48 https://cointelegraph.com/news/51-of-ethereum-blocks-are-now-compliant-with-ofac-standards-raising-censorship-concerns
- 50 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-21/core-scientific-files-for-bankruptcy-as-crypto-winter-lingers
- 51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
- 52 https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/378.pdf
- 53 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11965
- 54 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938
- 55 https://tezos.gitlab.io/active/consensus.html
- 56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
- 57 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shanghai
- 58 To read more about Ethereum's PoS, you can check out these sources: https://www.blocknative.com/blog/an-ethereum-stakers-guide-to-slashing-other-penalties https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/
- 59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr
- 60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
- 61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
- 62 If you are interested in reading more about Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, download the report written by the Kraken Exchange: https://blog.kraken.com/post/14885/pow-vs-pos-securing-the-chain/
- 63 https://www.drivechain.info/
- 64 https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046
- 65 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
- 66 https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki
- 67 https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
- 68 https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/11/26/previously-unpublished-emails-of-satoshi-nakamoto-present-a-new-puzzle/
- 69 https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook
- 70 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/11/19/lightning-networks-new-liquidity-marketplace-attracts-a-surprising-mix-of-individuals-enterprises/
- 71 https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/a-beginners-guide-to-the-bitcoin-taproot-upgrade
- 72 https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
- 73 https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki
- 74 https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki
- 75 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0114
- 76 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0117
- 77 https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-4-5-taro-launch/
- 78 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/community-banks-improve-bitcoin-adoption
- 79 https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-February/019968.html
- 80 https://coinpool.dev/v0.1.pdf
- 81 If you are interested in reading more about Drivechain, check out the project's website at https://www.drivechain.info
- 82 https://hedera.com/hh-decentralization-of-consensus.pdf
- 83 https://xrpl.org/run-rippled-as-a-validator.html
- 84 https://xrpl.org/intro-to-consensus.html
- 85 https://xrpl.org/faq.html
- 86 https://xrpl.org/consensus-protections.html
- 87 https://ripple.com/insights/explanation-ripples-xrp-escrow/
- 88 https://xrpscan.com/validators
- 89 https://patents.justia.com/assignee/ripple-labs-inc
- 90 https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b4/77/51/2eea0acf0f4a68/US10902416.pdf
- 91 https://blockstream.com/assets/downloads/pdf/liquid-whitepaper.pdf
- 92 https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/12/an-alleged-tornado-cash-developer-was-arrested-are-you-next/
- 93 https://docs.blockstream.com/liquid/technical_overview.html#confidential-transactions
- 94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States
- 95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
- 96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe#:~:text=The%20bombe%20(UK%3A%20%2Fb,messages%20during%20World%20War%20II
- 97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
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