Everything You Need to Know About the Gold Standard

Not to be confused with the Midas touch, the gold standard is a basis for gauging the value of currency, and it played a critical role in the establishment of the U.S. dollar. The nation steadily veered further and further from a true gold standard, and today the U.S. dollar is truly fiat in nature — not backed by any intrinsically valuable commodity. …Read more

Monero’s RandomX algorithm fork and its aftermath

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This article aims to outline the situation of the Monero “RandomX” position while giving a perspective from our mining operation, how this affects us (including you) as miners, plus a plan of action that will follow. On November 30th 2019, the Monero Blockchain will fork again, and effectively switch the network’s underlying mining algorithm from Cryptonight-R to RandomX. The main goal of their update is, among other changes, to decimate all ASIC mining activity on the network in the name of decentralization. Mining will then only be possible via CPUs and certain GPUs.

 

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Everything You Need to Know About Federal Reserve Banks

When it comes to the federal reserve, there’s levels to understand. You’ve got the federal reserve, located in Washington, D.C, home to the chairman of the Fed and the members of the Board of Governors. But then you’ve also got several regional branches of the federal reserve — twelve, to be exact — that play their own roles within the national banking infrastructure. …Read more

Everything You Need to Know About Fractional-Reserve Banking

What’s that you say? You don’t know the first thing about what fractional-reserve banking is or how it works? You’re not alone. We recently conducted a study of 1,000 US consumers and nearly 26% of respondents believed that banks were required to hold 100% of customer deposits in reserves. …Read more