Tag Archives: cryptocurrency

A survey of El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption

Posted on December 28, 2023 by

On December 22, a group of researchers from the US had a paper published in Science in which they reported the results of a survey of 1,800 households in El Salvador over its members’ adoption, or not, of bitcoin as currency. In September … Continue reading →

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What the bitcoin price drop reveals about ‘crypto’

Posted on June 19, 2022 by

One of the definitive downsides of cryptocurrencies raised its head this week when the nosediving price of bitcoin – brought on by the Luna/Terra crash and subsequent cascading effects – rendered bitcoin mining less profitable. One bitcoin today costs $19,410, so it’s … Continue reading →

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The persistence of NFTs

Posted on February 10, 2022 by

NFTs freak me out. One of the ways in which my grandmother lost touch with her daughter – my mother – was my mother’s generation’s access to and use of computers, smartphones and the internet. And one of the ways … Continue reading →

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The federation of our digital identities

Posted on July 5, 2014 by

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 might point at you, but they’re still distinct packets of data floating … Continue reading →

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