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· 8 min read
Quentin Faidide

Cryptocurrencies have often been depicted as worthless in the public sphere, sometimes by reputable investors or public institutions officials.

While the boom of tokens and NFTs led to numerous malicious, hype-based, or overly ambitious projects that can legitimately be compared to Ponzi schemes, the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain projects solved real-world issues with innovative technology, unbeknownst to the general public.

This article is an attempt at explaining how these projects are technological and civilisational innovations, and to discuss their limits.

· 7 min read
Quentin Faidide

Lately, I've been working on collecting data about Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes. I've been surprised at the amount of articles in the crypto news ecosystem that had misleading claims about how these protocols works. As someone who spent some time diving into the lower level implementation details of it, I felt like I had to share what I learnt.