George Samman

ALT “The next wave of computing is going to be a massive shift away from cloud computing. There are two major problems with cloud computing: (a) users don’t own their own data, and (b) remote servers are security holes. With a move away from cloud computing, decentralized systems like Bitcoin give explicit control of digital assets to end-users and remove the need to…” from “The next wave of computing” by Muneeb Ali.

ALT “Gold gets its value by being a precious metal, and a winning hash gets its value by being a precious number — a number that has a quality (its small size) that makes it exceedingly rare. Miners take stabs in the dark — collectively quadrillions of stabs in the dark — hoping to be the first to hit upon a number (called a ‘nonce’) that generates a hash that meets…” from “Making Money Trustworthy” by Tess Rinearson.