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by Nick Spanos SHA-256: The Cryptographic Cockroach That Survives the Quantum Apocalypse Alright, listen up. You’ve heard the panic, right? “Quantum computers are coming to destroy the world!” And they are. But here’s the kicker nobody in your government office, tech startup, or cocktail-fueled fintech panel is talking about: Bitcoin’s hash function — SHA-256 — is not […]

Blockchain’s Most Overlooked Exploit: Address Spoofing, Fake Tokens, and What Block Explorers Must Do By Nick Spanos 2. What Is Address Poisoning / Transaction Spoofing? There are two closely related flavors of this exploit. Both rely on the fact that explorers take raw on-chain data and present it to users as if it were human-readable […]

What if the legacy financial system wasn’t guardians of prosperity, but jailers instead? In the shadowed history of modern finance, there is a concept that turns the entire structure of our economy on its head. That the systems above us, the policies around us, even the dollars in our pockets are not born of true […]

By Nick Spanos, Founder of the Bitcoin Center - The World’s First Live Cryptocurrency Exchange, 100 Feet from the New York Stock Exchange in 2013 Ladies and Gentlemen of Armenia’s Parliament and Business Leaders, As the founder of the Bitcoin Center NYC in 2013 - the pioneering hub that ignited Wall Street’s crypto revolution - I’ve helped shape blockchain ecosystems worldwide. […]

Graffiti didn’t begin as an art market commodity. It was a cry for existence, a declaration of presence from kids who had nothing but a spray can and a vision. Two names stand tall in this origin story: SJK171 (Steve “the Greek” Kesoglides) and Mike171. Together, they transformed graffiti from a street-corner rebellion in Washington Heights into a […]

In November 2018, Nick Spanos delivered a powerful and insightful address to government officials in Mauritius, a sunny island nation with a rapidly growing economy and a vibrant community of innovators and visionaries. As a seasoned expert in Bitcoin and blockchain technology, Nick shared his extensive experience and vision for how Mauritius could become a […]

By Nick Spanos As a technologist, innovator, and someone who’s always questioned the established order, I’ve spent my life challenging the boundaries of what’s possible. You might know me as the guy who founded getaroom.com and nonoremotels.com 10 years before airbnb and the inventor of the multi-branch blockchain, paper ballot blockchain voting, the first implementor […]

The Federal Reserve, often referred to simply as “the Fed,” has long been one of the most powerful institutions in the United States. Established in 1913 under the guise of stabilizing the economy and preventing financial crises, its actual legacy tells a vastly different story — one of inflation, inequality, and economic manipulation. The idea […]

Disclaimer: Some have said to me that Elon wants to take down the deep state so he can become the deep state, but you can’t do that by freeing the people’s minds and allowing them to see how powerful their voice can become. Once you open Pandora’s box, you can’t go back, so I can’t […]