Category Archives: Bitcoin

Is ZCash the Answer to Bitcoin’s Limitations?

Bitcoin has been around for a while now, and a few large issues have turned up: Transactions per second: The block size limit imposes a 3 transactions per second (tps) limit for the whole network. A far cry from the 2000 tps that VISA processes on average. Privacy: Absolutely everyone can see all your transactions. Bitcoin’s… Continue reading »

Bitcoin and the Steady-state economy

Bitcoin is rapidly gaining popularity. Despite the recent problems with the Mt.Gox bitcoin exchange, I think the Bitcoin protocol itself will prevail, and more and more people and businesses will start to use it. I’ve started to experiment with using Bitcoin myself, and found that it works really well. For instance, the Android Bitcoin Wallet makes… Continue reading »