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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


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


JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today. This time, the firm has plans to handle IPOs in much same the way that ICOs currently operate. IPOs, or initial public offerings, are events in […] дальше »

2018-7-21 04:25


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Talk of Bitcoin ‘Moon’ Again on the Cards As Prices Beat $7k: Expert Panel Discusses Potential for BTC As ‘Digital Gold’

On Thursday night, during a panel discussion on CNBC’s Future’s Now, the experts, including Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck/MVIS, were optimistic on Bitcoin’s ability to attract serious “de-risk” investment in the near future as prices top $7,000 for the first time in a while. дальше »

2018-7-20 16:42


Ripple (XRP): Striking Similarities Between 2017 And 2018 Fractals

Ripple (XRP) makes all the gains for a whole cycle in a month’s time. In other words, the price corrects for the rest of the year as some investors take profit and others panic sell. While this may seem like a farfetched theory, it is surprising to see how Ripple (XRP) follows the exact same pattern over and over again as demonstrated by the chart for XRP/BTC above. дальше »

2018-7-19 18:00


Binance’s ChangPeng Zhao Says Crypto Market Will Get Big Institutional Investment Boost

Binance CEO Expects The Crypto Market To See A Huge Jump In Institutional Investment The CEO of Binance, ChangPeng Zhao, has recently announced that a huge wave of institutional investments is about to enter the crypto market and that ICO investment will be on the rise once again. He also used the opportunity to share […] дальше »

2018-7-19 23:38


Bitcoin’s Dominance Will Soon Rise Again

Bitcoin was subjected to all kinds of harsh words and phrases when the crypto market took a tumble a while ago. To some, it was finally heading down as some crypto critiques have predicted. This led to its dominance being questioned if it was really what people thought of it to be or it was […] The post Bitcoin’s Dominance Will Soon Rise Again appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-18 10:54


BlackRock Asset Management Firm is Studying Bitcoin & Crypto Space For First Time

World's Biggest BlackRock Looking At Bitcoin From previous comments several months ago that were unusual from legacy investment at the time, the world’s largest asset manager has spoken again. A July 16, 2018 Financial News London report notes that the company is considering bitcoin trading in new ways. The New York asset management company is […] дальше »

2018-7-16 19:18