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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: dYdX: Crypto Trading with Antonio Juliano
Description: Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin are electronic currencies with a complete transaction history stored on a blockchain. A cryptocurrency blockchain is a linear record of all the transactions between users for a given currency. This record is public and distributed across thousands of computers, which makes falsifying a transaction nearly impossible because the hacker would need to alter over half of all copies. People use digital βcontracts,β which is code that dictates the terms of the transaction and executes those terms, to perform trades. Understanding these technologies and how to use them used to be essential to trading and hold...