In this episode featuring Software Engineer Haseeb Qureshi, you’ll learn about the four potential killer apps of blockchain technology: dark web and black market payments, digital gold, payments (macro and micro), and tokenization.
Bitcoin
A beginner’s guide to Bitcoin Cash
In this episode featuring Scalar Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner Linda Xie, you’ll learn:
- The basics of Bitcoin Cash is, and how it compares to Bitcoin
- How and why Bitcoin Cash was created
- The differences between the scaling approaches of Bitcoin Cash (on chain) and Bitcoin (off chain)
- How forks like Bitcoin Cash allow cryptocurrencies to experiment when groups of people cannot reach consensus on contentious decisions
Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
In this episode featuring Nik Custodio, you’ll learn:
- How Bitcoin works at a fundamental level, ideal for beginners to cryptocurrency
- Examples of previous ways of exchanging value before Bitcoin was invented, and the disadvantages of them compared to Bitcoin
- Why it was difficult to exchange digital scarcity prior to the invention of Bitcoin
- How Bitcoin enables trustless exchange