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Signs That The Bears Are Taking Over Bitcoin

After the market crash on Thursday, the future of a further drop in Bitcoin seems to be a bit brighter according to CoinDesk. The biggest digital currency in the world has been staying relatively steady over the past month but on Thursday there was a massive drop bringing the price down below the $6,500 mark and to the $6,200 level confirming a range breakdown. дальше »

2018-10-13 21:30


Hooking up brains to machines could be the ‘next big thing’ for gaming

It may sound like science fiction, but brain-machine interfaces (BMI) will eventually come to our devices. It’s just a matter of time. The technology has been actively researched since 1969, before consumer computers even existed, when a researcher showed that monkeys could amplify their brain signals to control a needle on a dial. дальше »

2018-9-15 15:30


Taking Back Control of the Web Browsing Experience: Blockchain Startup Decenternet Returns Power to the User

July 31st, 2018: The scale of the internet and its influence has  been something spectacular – it has grew larger than anyone could have imagined. At this present point in time it is the greatest medium of information and media ever designed, which is a testament to humanity’s ability to innovate and improve. However, monopolistic […] дальше »

2018-8-1 02:18


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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


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