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Bitcoin vs Crypto

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Hello, in my last blog post I said I'd be writing more right, so here I am... a month later. I guess that's still improvement right? We keep on churning! When I first decided to start investing in crypto, of course my first topic of study was Bitcoin. It's the most popular cryptocurrency out there. Bitcoin was also the first coin that I bought, but soon one type of coin became three as I added Ethereum and Cardano into my portfolio (a moment of silence to fellow $ada hodlers).  As I dived more and more into crypto, I learnt about the differences between proof of work and proof of stake and how supposedly PoS is more environmentally friendly than PoW. All these claims got to me and I figured that all these cryptocurrencies could serve side by side as money alongside Bitcoin as there are many different type of fiat currencies such as the Dollar, Ringgit Malaysia, Euro etc.  Twitter is one of my favorite mediums to learn as there are many bright minds and established figures i

Discovering Bitcoin, 2021

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Hello everyone, happy new year! 2022 will be an amazing year for everyone in sha Allah, the year we rebuild and try to move on from the haunting clutches of Covid-19 from the past 2 years. It's been a while since I blogged and I figured what better way to start my long lost hobby than a new year, a new fresh start.  As everyone following me on twitter would know, 2021 has been a transformative year for me. 2020 was the year I finally graduated medicine, after 7 years of relentlessly chasing a goal. Throughout those 7 years, every night I imagined myself holding that scroll and wearing that pointed hat to say 'I finally have those 2 sacred letters in front of my name. Dr. Irfan.' Alas, the tiring pursuit of chasing those initials got to me deeply and at the end of the journey, all I could think of was having a simple life without the burden of the unselfish life of a doctor. 2021 for me was about going on a journey, to rediscover my love for life. I did everything available