What Is A Provably Fair Bitcoin Casino? Simplified. You probably are aware of Bitcoin by now and possibly even aware of it's amazing benefits when it comes to gambling at a Bitcoin casino which can offer very low house edges, both very high betting maximums and low minimums while offering fast and safe deposits and withdrawals. But those are just some of the initial benefits to playing on a Bitcoin casino. A select few additional Bitcoin gambling sites around the web also…
Could Blockchain Voting Rescue Future Elections? For those who live in the USA, the recent 2020 election has been nothing short of a nightmare. Besides a race which was very close in regards to number of votes for each candidate, there were many issues with counting votes as well as accusations of fraud. Blockchain voting has been brought up as a remedy, but it is actually not a new idea. Many people balk at the thought because they think it sounds like something crazy, the…
LBRY Network: A Censorship Resistant Media Platform Whether you like it or not, censorship has become part of the daily life of almost every person on Earth no matter what country you reside in. Of course, there are varying degrees of censorship depending on where you live, but thanks to various governments it’s almost impossible to get uncensored information regardless of your location.…
What Is The Most Inflation-Proof / Stable Fiat Currency? We spend an inordinate amount of time on the MintDice Blog fixated on Bitcoin and other various cryptocurrencies and their underlying strategic benefits over government run fiat based currencies. But it's worth taking some time out of this cryptocurrency dominated field to take an honest look at which fiat currencies provide the most underlying utility and honesty to their native citizenry. For obvious reasons, since…
The History of Money: From Bartering To Crypto In our current day and age, we are so used to the way money looks and the way which we are able to use it that it’s hard to believe that it was ever any different. But it was. Money actually has a very murky, and diverse, history, and it is in an era of transformation once again. Bartering Back in the cave man times, and prior to around 700 BCE, Money didn’t really exist. In these times, people acquired the goods which they…
The Bretton Woods Agreement In the modern day and age, much of the world’s currencies are based on the US dollar, and therefore fluctuate accordingly. Surprisingly, this wasn’t always the case. In fact, foreign currencies being pegged to the US dollar is sort of a new concept, and there’s a possibility that this is all about to change. https://mintdice.com/blog/what-is-the-most-inflation-proof-stable-fiat-currency?page=1 The Original Agreement Prior to World War II, a…
8-Figure Exchange Hack: Exmo Loses 5% Of Holdings On December 21st, 2020 the UK based cryptocurrency exchange EXMO reportedly suffered a devastating hack. Although hacks of the actual Bitcoin blockchain are rare, hacks of frequently used apps or cryptocurrency exchanges are frequent, and generally devastating, for the app in question. http://bit.ly/MintDiceExmo https://mintdice.com/blog/a-guide-to-cryptocurrency-exchanges What is EXMO Exmo is a cryptocurrency exchange based…
The History of Cryptography When people think of cryptocurrencies, they generally think of the 21st century, after all, it’s a new technology for most people. You may be surprised to know that the art of cryptography, the idea of hiding language, has actually been around for centuries. Thanks to human innovation, cryptography has changed over time, from the written world of secret messages of our ancestors, to the modern electronic medium we now recognize.…
Bitcoin in 2021: Topics To Consider As Price Soars After December 25th, Bitcoin climbed to all new record highs, breaking the $25,000 price barrier. And the experts predict that the Bitcoin price surge is far from done, in fact, some even think that Bitcoin could break $100,000 per coin in the coming 2021 year. Will this in fact prove to be true? 2021 has been slated to be a year of changes, some of which may have huge implications for the cryptocurrency world.…
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