- Stack Overflow (Exchange) is a great way to address some of the fundamental questions you may have when exploring the notion of cryptocurrencies and distributed systems. Below are questions from within the Economic, Cryptography, and Computer Science communities that may be of interest...
- Is zero inflation desirable?
- Why is bartering uncommon in modern countries?
- Why do different countries have different currency?
- From an economics perspective, what are the ramifications of a currency with fixed money supply?
- Hoarding cash to impoverish an entire nation?
- What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense?
- Why do economists disagree so much?
- Signatures: RSA compared to ECDSA
- Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?
- What are the differences between a digital signature, a MAC and a hash?
- Why can't we reverse hashes?
- What is the main difference between a key, an IV and a nonce?
- “SHA-256” vs “any 256 bits of SHA-512”, which is more secure?