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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


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Google’s latest AI experiment makes GIFs by watching you move

Google has published a brand new AI experiment called Move Mirror, which matches your pose with a catalogue of 80,000 photos. Useless? Kinda, but it’s also pretty bloody cool. Here’s how it works: when you visit the Move Mirror website and grant it access to your computer’s webcam, it maps the positioning of your joints using a computer vision model called PoseNet. дальше »

2018-7-20 10:41


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Russian Hackers Utilized Bitcoin’s Anonomity to Influence Election – Will It Bring ‘FUD’ to the Crypto Market?

The U. S. Department of Justice, recently, filed new charges against 12 Russian intelligence agents who hacked into the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign. According to a federal indictment released on July 13, 2018, the Russian hackers used cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to mask their identities and launder money. дальше »

2018-7-16 15:59


Australian Punter Makes $884 Million Bitcoin Bet Against Buffet

The cryptocurrency market is no stranger to big, bullish calls, but a new bet by an Australian punter puts Bitcoin price predictions such as Fundstrat’s Tom Lee’s $25,000 BTC to shame with a multi-million dollar bet that: the value of one Bitcoin will exceed the value of the unit-share price of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway […] The post Australian Punter Makes $884 Million Bitcoin Bet Against Buffet appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-12 19:00


Coinbase Custody broker-dealer previously charged with putting customer assets at risk

Coinbase’s new solution for institutional investors launched yesterday to great fanfare. It offers solutions for long-awaited institutional money to flow into the market. Electronic Transaction Clearing [ETC], the registered broker-dealer through which Coinbase aims to conduct transactions, was charged by the US Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC], earlier this year. The charges against it were […] дальше »

2018-7-4 00:58