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Welcome to Exploring Cryptocurrency

Hi all,

Welcome to "Exploring Cryptocurrency"! This is a platform for both new and experienced users of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to learn and keep up-to-date with current events in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Discourse is also encouraged; don't hesitate to leave a comment with your input, questions, and/or topics you'd like to learn more about.

Exploring Cryptocurrency is about more than just cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology - it is a place for exploring new, emergent, and disruptive technologies and ideas. One of our primary goals is to contribute to the crypto community by educating every day, often non-tech savvy folks about this exciting and powerful technology. In that interest, you will find many podcasts and articles that investigate these technologies from a layman's perspective, making complex ideas easy to understand by way of real-world use-cases, analogies, and ongoing discourse.

About the Author:

I'm not an expert; my knowledge isn't preeminent. I am merely a cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiast and passionate adherent of futurist ideologies. I was introduced to blockchain tech in 2012 while in University when I stumbled upon a curious research paper on the dark web. This research paper was Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin white paper. Given my prior acquaintanceship with distributed systems and a burgeoning interest in cryptography, I was blown away - here was a solution-driven technology that had the potential to change the world, not just finance! I was excited about this peer-to-peer, decentralized protocol standard that could potentiate a network of immutability, consensus and trust. The applications were and are immeasurable.

I subsequently casually followed Bitcoin, then Ethereum, then the ERC20 standard and smart contracts. In 2016, I fully realized the potential of blockchain technology as a means of creating and fostering global markets, trans-nationalism, automated technology, as well as incredible theoretical ideas, such as automating things like personal finance and corporate management, things that we have until now envisioned as inextricably intertwined with person-hood. e.g. The Internet of Things, AI financial autonomy, algorithmic corporations and non-profits

The Responsibilities of the Cryptocurrency Community:

Many individuals first made their foray into the crypto space when Bitcoin's valuation reached an all-time-high in December 2017. Thereafter, another market correction happened (something early crypto adopters are accustomed to), leaving millions of new users disenfranchised with what they saw as only a means to acquire capital gains by way of speculative investing. This created a rift in the cryptocurrency space, wherein the valuations of token assets seemingly inversely reflects (and unfortunately, obfuscates) the success of blockchain implementations and the ever-growing use-cases of various tokens: while a bear market has endured, blockchain technology has flourished. Thus, one of my goals here is to educate new cryptocurrency users and investors about how important it is to actively engage in and use these technologies, not to just see them as ways to make money.

As someone who has spent countless hours across over two years researching these technologies, I owe the community a didactic, accessible, and welcoming platform for learning about them. Please do not hesitate to comment so as to ask questions, which I will answer as best as I can. Please keep dialogue civil and remain cognizant that we, the cryptocurrency community, have a responsibility to make this space accessible to those who either have a difficult time understanding this technology, or otherwise are not well-versed in computer science and/or finance. In order to see widespread adoption, it is imperative that we become less insular.

Best,

Matthew