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What are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

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Keywords: hash function, Bitcoin mining, mining pools, Getwork, Stratum,

What is an Electronic Communication Network (ECN)?

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Keywords: trading, stock exchanges, Electronic Communication Network (ECN),

What is the Difference Between Litecoin and Bitcoin?

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Keywords: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Lightning Network, Segregated Witness, Segwit,

How Does Blockchain Technology Work?

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Keywords: activity ledger, blockchain mining, hashes, distributed ledger, decentralized network, peer-to-peer technology,

What are Multichains and Sidechains?

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Keywords: Ethereum, Ripple, Multichain, Blockstream, Liquid, Drivechain, Lightning Network, sidechain,

How to Mine Litecoin and other Altcoins?

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Keywords: ASIC mining, Lightning Network, Segwit, Scrypt, GPU mining, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit,

How is Ripple Different Than Bitcoin and Ethereum?

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Keywords: decentralized network, trustless system, open-source, private blockchains, banks and blockchains, permissioned blockchains,

What is a Currency Transaction Report (CTR)?

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Keywords: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Suspicious Activity Report (SAR), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act,

What is the Lightning Network?

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Keywords: Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, atomic swaps, lightning channel, Charlie Lee,

Do I Have to Pay Taxes on My Bitcoins?

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Keywords: self-employment tax, self-directed IRA, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), tax reporting, convertible virtual currencies, property vs currency taxation, virtual currency as a capital asset, bitcointaxes,

What is Form 8891?

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Keywords: Form 1040, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Canada, Form 114, FBAR, private letter ruling, Canadian-Americans,

What is the Difference Between Public and Permissioned Blockchains?

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Keywords: blockchain technology, blockchain mining, nodes, cryptocurrencies, proof-of-work, Satoshi Nakamoto, ASIC mining,

What is a Decentralized Application?

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Keywords: Dapps, Ethereum Virtual Machine, distributed computing, tokenization,

What are “Dark Pools” of Money?

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Keywords: market performance, regulations, institutional investing, illegal trading, dark pools of liquidity,

What are Blockchain’s Issues and Limitations?

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Keywords: blockchain technology, Satoshi Nakamoto, 51% attach,

What is Bitcoin?

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Keywords: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, BTC, crypto marketplace, digital currency,

What is Blockchain Technology?

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Keywords: Blockchains, blockchain technology, databases vs blockchains, introduction to blockchains, advantages to blockchains,

How Do You Mine Ethereum?

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Keywords: ASIC mining, hash function, hashrate, GPU mining, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG),

What is the Ethereum Virtual Machine?

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Keywords: distributed computing, Ethereum client software, validation nodes,

What is a Distributed Ledger?

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Keywords: Blockchains, Cryptocurrency, blind signatures, database security,

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