Bitcoin and Crypto: The Family
Bitcoin and Crypto
The family: $BTC the reserve money, $TAO the intelligence money, $NEAR the compute money, $ZEC the private money.
Bitcoin used proof of work to decentralize money; $BTC is the foundation, the base settlement layer that every agent, app, and private ledger ultimately clears through.
Bitcoin used proof of work to decentralize money; Bittensor uses peer-ranked proof of useful intelligence to decentralize AI training, with $TAO as the money that pays for it.
Bitcoin used proof of work to decentralize money; NEAR uses Nightshade sharding to decentralize the world’s computer, running one blockchain as many parallel shards so apps scale like the web, with $NEAR as the money that pays for it.
Bitcoin used proof of work to decentralize money; Zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs to decentralize private money, hiding sender, receiver, and amount on a Bitcoin-based ledger, with $ZEC as the money that stays private.
