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Economic Rationality and the Bitcoin Network

The Bitcoin network has now been functioning for a decade. In that time, human beings have actively interacted with the system, participating as miners, running nodes, and making transactions. In addition to securing the network and increasing decentralization by contributing computing power, human beings have also played a significant role in the increase in the value of the cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-12-31 12:00


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Mining One Bitcoin a Month Would Require Harvesting Body Heat from 44,000 People

In a bid to raise awareness about the crypto industry’s energy consumption, the Institute of Human Obsolescence, a Dutch organization focused on data ownership, explored the energy usage of Bitcoin and found that 44,000 would need to provide their body energy for a month in order to mine a single Bitcoin, Motherboard reported on January 3, 2017. дальше »

2018-12-27 00:00


PR: Booming Rootstock Ecosystem Nagezeni Creates Token on Bitcoin Sidechain

Collapse of the financial system, broken lives of thousands of uninvolved people and subsequent economic recession – all of that mess brought the year of 2008. Satoshi Nakamoto realised that banking system inefficiencies can be solved by eliminating human factor from the equation, something that peer-to-peer technology could offer, so Bitcoin was born. дальше »

2018-11-8 15:30


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