Mnuchin’s Number Two Says Private Cryptos Pose Threat to Government Power and Will Be Watched

2019-11-22 16:03

The deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury has raised the specter of a not-so-distant future when private digital currencies have stripped some of the power from governments. Policymakers will take a "hard look" at that, he said.

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WhatsApp’s chat manipulation exploit remains unresolved even after a year (Updated)

Vulnerabilities uncovered in WhatsApp — the messaging app used by about 1. 5 billion users across the world — can allow bad actors to exploit the platform to manipulate or spoof chat messages. The flaws would make it possible to “intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations, giving attackers the power to create and spread misinformation from what appear to be trusted sources,” the researchers noted.

2019-8-8 14:01


Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.

2019-6-14 04:03


Orchid Tops $43 Million Raised in Token Sale for Crypto Tor Alternative

The project behind a blockchain protocol designed to enable private internet browsing has raised another $7 million in funding, CoinDesk has learned. According to the company, Orchid Labs has now raised a total of $43 million on an offered $125 million in a pre-sale of a token that will power its still-in-development technology. “Orchid Labs’ mission is […]

2019-5-8 22:57


On Collusion

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.

2019-4-5 04:03


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As Court Reconvenes for QuadrigaCX, Questions Surround Empty Cold Wallets

As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.

2019-3-5 20:20


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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.

2019-3-1 19:43


TokenData ICO

TokenData is the first multi-exchange platform that builds and executes professional investment decisions, relying on an awesome crypto-assets data lake. We produce raw data for Asset Managers : financial market data, company data as well as sentiments on social media, news & trends on the entire ecosystem of the crypto assets market.

2018-12-16 23:03


AERGO ICO

AERGO is a proposed new blockchain protocol, which aims to power both public and private blockchain deployments. Based on Blocko Inc’s (Blocko) experience in providing large-scale, production level private blockchain to recognized enterprise customers, AERGO intends to be purpose-built to enable enterprise architectures based on blockchain by incorporating both new, innovative and established technical approaches to build scalable distributed database systems.

2018-7-30 18:13


Knowchain ICO

Knowchain is a new blockchain with 2 layers that power the ability to make transactions with additional information attached on-chain. The main idea is a 2 layers blockchain with layer 1 as Value Settlement Layer to make the value transferring process faster and layer 2 as Ano Layer to store Ano units that can be anything such as Smart Contracts or Additional Information.

2018-7-24 17:30


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.

2018-7-21 23:03


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Titanium and Deuterium, Shaken, not Stirred: Deneum Reveals its Power Station to Revolutionize Global Energy Market, Gears Up For $89 Million ICO

Deneum Breakthrough in Particle Physics Allows its Power Stations to Generate 95 percent Cheaper Electricity, Autonomously, at Any Conditions. Moscow, July 19, 2018: Deneum, an IT company to shift the paradigm of the energy industry with its Deneum Power Station, announced it had successfully concluded a $770 000 private sale.

2018-7-19 18:30


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.

2018-7-13 17:16


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On Radical Markets

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

2018-7-21 04:03