Articles for beginners

Bitcoin: getting started!

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10 Beginner's questions & answers

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Basic concepts

What is a white paper?

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What is cryptography?

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What is a hash?

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What is a blockchain?

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What do KYC & AML mean?

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What is a wallet?

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Technology

What is a mempool?

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What is Bitcoin mining?

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What are ASIC miners?

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Block reward, subsidy and Coinbase transaction explained

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What are private & public keys and public addresses?

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What are Bitcoin addresses?

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What is a UTXO?

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What is an optional passphrase?

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What is a soft/hard fork?

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What is a Sybil attack?

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The Lightning Network explained simply

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What is a Bitcoin Halving?

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Economy

What actually is money?

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The characteristics of good money

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What is a double spend?

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What is an order book?

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What does "pump and dump" mean?

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What are "weak hands"?

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Miscellaneous

What is the Genesis block?

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Why 21 million Bitcoin?

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What is the "problem of the Byzantine generals"?

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What are cypherpunks?

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10 crypto memes and their meaning

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