sorin.cristescu (72)in #hive • yesterdayHow to buy HIVE with €urosI've tested for you "buying HIVE with €uros", courtesy of PeakD.com. Here's how it works, in 8 stepssorin.cristescu (72)in LeoFinance • last monthDeFi: Finance décentralisée - 3ème partieVoici la troisième partie du cours d'introduction à la "finance décentralisée" ("DeFi") que j'ai crée pour le Master 2 "Mathématiques, Finance computationnelle et Actuariat" de…sorin.cristescu (72)in LeoFinance • last monthDeFi: Finance décentralisée - 2ème partieDans la première partie nous avons introduit la DeFi en la comparant avec la finance traditionnelle. Pour rappel, j'ai crée ce contenu pour un cours que j'ai dispensé dans…sorin.cristescu (72)in LeoFinance • 2 months agoDeFi: Finance décentralisée - décryptage - 1ère partieUne introduction à la finance décentralisée en plusieurs partiessorin.cristescu (72)in #politics • 2 months agoSelf-defeating tendencies - today's heetBy refusing to develop its shale gas resources, Europe did not do anything to prevent climate change. The need for gas didn't change, the amount of gas being burned and…sorin.cristescu (72)in LeoFinance • 2 months agoCryptocurrencies - a new asset classThis is the content of a presentation I did on March 15, 2022, hosted (online) by UBI (United Business Institutes, a private busienss school with campuses in Bruxelles…sorin.cristescu (72)in #blockchain • 5 months agoAnti-crypto crusadersNFT and DeFi attracted scammers and spawned in reaction a new generation of anti-crypto crusaders. sorin.cristescu rebloggeddragosroua (75)in LeoFinance • 5 months agoSome Christmas Thoughts About HiveIt's Christmas, which, for a significant part of the word, is a major spiritual event. I've been brought up and raised in a space which observed this event, and I hold very nice…sorin.cristescu (72)in #blockchain • 5 months agoIn praise of zero-fee blockchains... Or why Bitcoin, Ethereum and all their imitators got the economic model wrongsorin.cristescu (72)in #politics • 6 months agoChanging politics manifesto - today's heetWorking together can improve politics. To come and work together, let's first agree on a set of values. sorin.cristescu (72)in #blockchain • 6 months agoIs blockchain a "record keeping device", a "truth machine" or what?Hive and steem can help create an informed public under conditions of abundancesorin.cristescu (72)in #politics • 7 months agoThe climate change trilemma - today's heetA conjunction of factors seems to bring nuclear back in the "Overton window"sorin.cristescu (72)in #politics • 8 months agoCSV Ausseruerdentlecher Kongress - today's heet Today, the "extraordinary congress" of the CSV, Luxembourg's Christian-democratic party, marks a new beginning. After a rather tormented period of internal strife, the party…sorin.cristescu (72)in Hive Governance • 8 months agoA soul, an idealIn her "State of the Union 2021" address, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quoted one of the EU Founding Fathers, Robert Schuman: "Europe needs a soul, an ideal, and…sorin.cristescu (72)in #bitcoin • 10 months agoBitcoin, soldier of reasonThe debate around bitcoin's energy consumption is heated but not always reasoned. "The Economist" weighs in.sorin.cristescu (72)in #sociology • 11 months agoThe Cement of Society - today's heetTwenty years before Bitcoin, Jon Elster published this seminal study in decentralized solutions to achieving cooperationsorin.cristescu (72)in #hive • 11 months agoBSC consecrates Hive's DPoS - today's heet No better recognition than having Binance academy explain that #BSC has ripped the PoW consensus apart from Ethereum and replaced it with ... the Delegated Proof of Stake (#DPoS) of #steem and #hivesorin.cristescu (72)in #blockchain • 11 months agoPermission and blockchain systemsWhen designing a new blockchain system, whether to make it "permissioned" or "permissionless" is an important decision sorin.cristescu (72)in #bitcoin • last yearStop analysing PoW's cost with the attitude of a bean counter - today's heetOne should not even engage in a discussion of the cost of Bitcoin's PoW. Bitcoin is freedom and freedom is priceless! sorin.cristescu (72)in #hive • last yearDoes Hive have dogs and memes? - today's heetHive too "has dogs and memes", and they are such wow!