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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


The CEO Of JPMorgan Is Bashing Cryptos Again! But Says Blockchain “is Real”

Just last September, the CEO of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, came out to bash cryptocurrencies, calling them a “fraud. ” However, he later said that he regretted his choice of words in his artistic description of the digital assets, even going further to almost swear that he wouldn’t be talking about cryptocurrencies anymore. дальше »

2018-8-7 00:21


Now Hiring a Crypto Expert, China’s Government Censorship Agency is Cracking Down

The state-level Chinese government agency responsible for censoring media output in the country may soon have a cryptographer on the payroll – and with expertise in blockchain technology. According to the job description published by the government agency on Tuesday, the ideal candidate would be a technologist with strong skill-set in cryptography algorithm and performance дальше »

2018-7-31 20:13


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Protonmail Hints at Possible ‘Proton Shares’ ICO

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail appears to be eyeing the possibility of raising funds via an initial coin offering, according to a current job offer.   Protonmail: We Have ‘Exciting Blockchain Ventures’ The advertisement for a blockchain developer lists several “preferences” specifically relating to initial coin offerings, including “[participation] in a successful ICO” and “expert in developing secure Ethereum smart contracts. дальше »

2018-7-23 18:00


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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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