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Simplicity Language to Give Bitcoin Ethereum-Like Smart Contract Capabilities

Simplicity, a combinator-based, typed, and functional language for blockchain applications can reportedly enable Bitcoin’s Script language to handle more complex yet reliable smart contracts. Bitcoin Script Language is Limited, For Now According to a new research from Blockstream on Simplicity – a blockchain applications language – distributed ledgers pose a range of unique challenges, which make traditional programming languages unfit. дальше »

2018-11-30 21:00


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This site checks if your Cyber Monday Amazon purchase is a good deal

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. If your bank account isn’t completely decimated after Black Friday, you’ll be glad to know it’s Cyber Monday! But before you drop your credit card details down and splurge on some new toys, you should know something: most of those deals are anything but. дальше »

2018-11-26 12:58


TrustED Launches Blockchain-Based Platform for Educational Background Checks

Australia-based startup TrustED has launched a blockchain-based academic credential verification service. The platform leverages blockchain technology to enable educational institutions and graduates to both store and authenticate grades, credentials, or certificates for employers, simplifying the process of how academic credentials are verified all the while ensuring legitimacy. дальше »

2018-11-21 18:38


Hong Kong Jewelry Chain Adopts Blockchain for Authenticity Checks

A leading Hong Kong jeweler will utilize blockchain technology to sell diamonds and other precious gems to customers, according to the South China Morning Post. Hong Kong Businesses Deploy Blockchain Chow Tai Fook, a Hong Kong-based jewelry retailer with locations in China, Vietnam and Singapore, has partnered with Everledger, a blockchain solutions provider, to promote transparency […] The post Hong Kong Jewelry Chain Adopts Blockchain for Authenticity Checks appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-9-14 10:00


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


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Constellation Code Review: Blockchain OS

My Constellation code review coincides with the release of their testnet visualizer, which you can see here.  The business itself is described as “A blockchain microservice operating system” which checks off all the boxes for any serious contender these days – scalable, fast, reputation-based free transactions, decentralized, mobile, smart contracts, etc etc. дальше »

2018-8-7 19:20


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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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