Next article submitted in a few days. No one has ever done anything like this. Here's an extract of the draft. Comments, please:
"Bitcoin and Friends: an E-Coach Tour of Crypto-Sphere Sites.
Mark Blair writes:
welcome, readers, to a world-first, a Multi-Link Tour of the crypto-sphere. Please keep your head and arms inside the e-coach at all times.
It goes like this: read the Notes before you hit the link; have a look around the site at your leisure; then get back on the coach.
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We shall provide a sort of 'Basic Stats Box' for any coin that we enthuse about. Let's practice:
" . . . Bitcoin [massive first-to-market power/market cap; a Proof of Work coin -- 'mined'; 13 Millions out of eventual total of 21 Million extant; more 'commercially oriented'; de-facto centralisation -- got 'whales']"
Last in this section, we'll pop in to the thread that I hang out at: Bitcointalk CGB.
You'll arrive on Page 140, where there's a technical description of CGB [job already done for me]. The coin is approaching the jump from the initial 'POW' mining-phase to the mature 'Proof of Work' stage.
There is a great deal to learn here. The two 'touchstones' of coin analysis, readers, are a coin's 'technical specs' and its community.
If you feel so inclined, read a few pages of the discussion here. At one point, for example, there's a discourse about inflation. A coin community can opt for high inflation; make a quick buck; and bail. Or the community can choose low inflation; fight its way through the dross; and produce a coin ('crypto-commodity') with stable long-term high value:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=245086.2780
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Nice illustration. I feel like I am at a science museum Lol
I am heading off to bed right away but let me suggest one thing:
"The coin is approaching the jump from the initial 'POW' mining-phase to the mature 'Proof of Work' stage."
This is a very nuanced thing that's happening. I would say the coin is completing its highly inflationary "Proof of Work" mining phase, and transitioning to the more efficient "Proof of Stake" minting phase which targets inflation at 2%/yr.
Nice work! Lookin' forward to it.
papersheepdog, Canada