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Ethereum: ProgPoW high level design goals are reasonable towards achieving its intended economic effect

Programmatic Proof-of-Work aka ProgPoW is undoubtedly one of the most discussed topics in the Ethereum community. The protocol proposed by developer team, IfDefElse, is a GPU-tuned extension of ETHash and its main purpose is to reduce the control of ASIC miners on the network by making graphic cards more competitive. дальше »

2019-9-8 22:30


Greedy Bitcoin Traders Drive Fees up 200% – Here’s What You Can Do

A CCN reader wrote in to ask us to explain why he has 13 payments pending in the Bitcoin blockchain. The answer is simple enough: at any time, the Bitcoin main chain can become congested. The only way to ensure Bitcoin payments arrive in a very timely fashion is to either pay the highest possible fee or use Lightning Network, which is still gaining traction. дальше »

2019-4-4 21:30


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DevCon 4 Will Set the Stage for Ethereum’s Next Milestone: Constantinople

Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer. дальше »

2018-9-11 18:15


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, answered candidly during an interview about crypto’s prospects for the future. Among other criticisms, he stressed blockchain technology is mostly hype, and that bitcoin core (BTC) is controlled by Chinese miners

Among other criticisms, he stressed blockchain technology is mostly hype, and that bitcoin core (BTC) is controlled by Chinese miners and has no hope of being a world currency. And while Ripple certainly was the hot topic, Mr. дальше »

2018-6-13 21:18