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Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years”

Bitcoin (BTC)–Bitcoin is again in the headlines being criticized by a Nobel Prize winning economist. Paul Krugman, one of the most accoladed and celebrated economists of our time, has again written in his contribution to The New York Times that Bitcoin fails to constitute money, but could also be responsible for erasing much of the […] The post Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years” appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-31 20:03


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Breaking: Winklevoss Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Gets Rejected Yet Again

It was just announced that the most recent proposal for a Bitcoin ETF from the Winklevoss Twins, the owners and founders of the fittingly named Gemini exchange, was just rejected by the SEC. Old News Rehashed, Or Something Entirely New? At first glance, many saw this as another bout of old news that was reposted […] The post Breaking: Winklevoss Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Gets Rejected Yet Again appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-27 00:55


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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