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Vitalik Buterin Baffles Crypto Twitter: Can You Solve His Math Puzzle?

Vitalik Buterin, the enigmatic co-founder of Ethereum, sent shockwaves through the crypto Twittersphere this past weekend with a series of seemingly nonsensical equations. The equations, which defied basic arithmetic (think 2 + 2 = 0), left many scratching their heads and fearing a break in the very fabric of mathematics. However, as it turns out, […] дальше »

2024-4-30 10:00


Understanding PLONK

Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”. дальше »

2019-9-24 04:03


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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Adjusts 10% Upwards For the First Time in Months

Bitcoin continues to stabilize its network activity with a return to upward difficulty adjustments after hash rate reversed its decline last month. Bitcoin Continues To Police Itself Data from statistics resources Blockchain and Bitcoin Wisdom confirms that the Bitcoin network’s most recent difficulty adjustment was up, not down, by just over 10 percent. дальше »

2019-1-1 17:00


Electricity Consumption of Bitcoin is a Non-Issue: Solar Energy is Free in Some Regions

Bitcoin and its trustless, decentralized design requires a unique process called mining that validates each transaction being added to its underlying blockchain. The process involves solving complex mathematical equations, and typically requires some serious computer processing power, and even specially-designed hardware, to validate each block. дальше »

2018-12-18 20:01