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THE THREE HORSEMEN: MINING, WALLETS, AND EXCHANGES

Let’s move to the fundamentals: mining, safeguarding, and trading of cryptocurrency, or what I call the Three Horsemen of Cryptocurrency.

My metaphor may sound ominous, particularly for fiat currency’s defenders who see crypto as a mass-scale, disruptive threat.

But do not confuse my Horsemen with the New Testament’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—war, conquest, disease, and death—whose arrival on red, white, black, and pale horses in Revelations foreshadows a near end of times.

My Three Horsemen are an enabling force for good. The world’s banking systems haven’t been working as well as most ...

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