PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Japan has clamped down on them, with complaints, naturally, that regulations make it too hard for startups to operate.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I was hired to cover, I think, securities litigation or insurance regulation, something like truly technical and awful. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability.

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