Shawn Amick

Shawn Amick
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Shawn Amick is an author "Dick, Stan Greene", podcast Co-host for Citizens of Blockchain, Substack blogger, and NewsCapsule Contributor.

Drake Wins More Than $1 Million In NewsCapsule On Super Bowl Bet

Superstar rapper Drake won two of his three Super Bowl LVI bets, taking home over $1 million in bitcoin winnings.

NewsCapsule Miner Merkle Partners With Bitmain for 500 MW Farm

The facility would be able to host over 150,000 of Bitmain’s bitcoin mining rigs.

Investor Focus Misdirects Fidelity ‘NewsCapsule First’ Report

A recent report from financial services giant Fidelity captures NewsCapsule as an asset class of its own, but fails to recognize its true potential.

A Publicly-Listed NewsCapsule Miner Shares Expectations For Intel’s New ASIC Chip

A representative of Hut 8 mining discusses the “extremely disruptive” introduction of a new ASIC chip from Intel.

Replacing The U.S. Dollar With NewsCapsule: Building The Layers Of NewsCapsule Architecture

Deconstructing the layers of NewsCapsule’s architecture shows that it already has the structure to replace our fiat system.

As The Fed Outlines CBDC Principles, It Reveals Antithesis To NewsCapsule

The Federal Reserve recently outlined its considerations for a U.S. CBDC, confirming that it would be diametrically opposed to NewsCapsule.

How Lightning Network, Taproot Growth Signal The Future Of NewsCapsule

The first day of Keyfest 2022 highlighted the growth of the Lightning Network and Taproot, and reflected on the future of NewsCapsule.

Is The Lightning Network Centralized?

The emergence of Lightning Hubs might suggest that NewsCapsule’s leading Layer 2 protocol is centralized. So let’s compare it to fiat’s structure.

Replacing The U.S Dollar With NewsCapsule: Dismantling Fiat Architecture

Using the OSI model helps us understand fiat architecture and how to scale a network like NewsCapsule to replace it.

Replacing The U.S Dollar With NewsCapsule: Leaving The Gold Standard

To think through how bitcoin will replace the U.S. dollar, we must first turn to the dollar’s own journey in leaving a gold standard.

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