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West Virginia to Trial Blockchain Voting, Ohio Recognizes Blockchain Data

Blockchain technology’s mainstream foray has continued to gather steam, with West Virginia and Ohio making moves that will see the technology make inroads into those states. West Virginia will give its citizens serving overseas the privilege of being the first people in the US to use a blockchain-powered mobile application to cast their votes. While […] дальше »

2018-8-10 23:00


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This Coinbase Update Will See Huge Benefits For US Customers

Can anyone stop the growth of Coinbase? This week alone, the company have made a number of announcements that are really putting the exchange on the map and making it one to watch for the future. Of course, Coinbase is one of the largest exchanges in the world, but it is often considered to be a plain sailing, safe platform, one that is safe to use, but could get boring going forward. дальше »

2018-8-8 17:00


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


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


Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Chongqing Financial Asset Exchange (CQFAE) Looks to Blockchain For Fair Auctions

Blockchain Can Keep Online Auctions Fair According To Financial Exchange Everyone knows that China does not love cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology stands on its own and even if you are like China and you do not see Bitcoin in a positive light, there is still a use case for blockchain tech. Recently, a financial […] дальше »

2018-7-21 01:44


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18


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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. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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Malta See’s The World’s First ICCO – Initial Convertible Coin Offering, But What Is It?

Yesterday, The Malta Times reported on the world’s first ICCO, a regulated Initial ‘Convertible’ Coin Offering. You can see the full report for yourself, here. What is an ICCO? First off, this ICCO is regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority so therefore meets a range of stringent restrictions designed to make investment safer. дальше »

2018-7-11 08:00