Nothing cryptic about another 'crypto' disaster
Earlier this month, a cryptocurrency token called Luna crashed in price – an event that also brought down the value of bitcoin, became the biggest crash in cryptocurrency history thus far, earned the…
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'Mantra sciences' is just poor fantasy
I don't know how the author of a piece in the Times of India managed to keep a straight face when introducing a school based on Vedic rituals that would "show the way" to curing diseases…
The federation of our digital identities
Facebook, Twitter, email, WordPress, Instagram, online banking, the list goes on... Offline, you're one person maintaining (presumably) one identity. On the web, you have many of them. All of them…
Rethinking cryptocurrency
I'm still unsure about bitcoins' uncertain future as far as mainstream adoption is concerned, but such issues have been hogging media limelight so much so that people are missing out on why bi…
Bitcoins and the landscape of internet commerce
In a previous post, I'd laid out the technical details of what goes into mining and transacting with bitcoins (BTC). My original idea was to talk about why they are an important invention, but als…
Trying to understand bitcoins
In a 2008 paper, a Japanese programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, introduced an alternate form of currency that he called bitcoins. His justifications were the problems plaguing contemporary digital commerce.…