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Fungibility is often held as a crucial characteristic of sound money. But what happens when money has a public record of every transaction, and morally questionable trades can be identified? Is ...

While bitcoin's limited transaction capacity is no secret, day one of the ongoing Scaling Bitcoin conference in Milan served to assert that there is perhaps another stage of development that needs to ...

Let’s talk about “fungibility” — the economic concept that one unit of a commodity may be interchangeable with another. That’s true if the commodity involved is something like a bushel of corn or a ...

Autonomic, self-sufficient, and decentralized, blockchain’s distributed, and self-executing smart contracts set a new standard for social contracts. However, somewhere between the smart-city traffic ...

David Vorick is a Bitcoin Core developer, former IBM software developer and the co-founder of decentralized cloud storage platform Sia. In this CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, Vorick tells us ...