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Blockchain Research In The UK Is Big Industry

Blockchain research in the UK is a growing industry, with a new sort of workforce dedicated to researching and investigating this new technology. Whilst the blockchain remains one universal concept, it is now apparent that it boasts many advantages for many companies and industries, therefore it seems that research within the United Kingdom is now at an all time high, a sentiment that is no doubt reflected internationally too. дальше »

2018-8-7 16:00


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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-31 23:13


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G20 Crypto Regulation Decision Boosts Bitcoin to Two-Month High

Bitcoin has hit a two-month price high of $7,820, at the time of writing, amidst its ongoing resurgence following a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires on 21 and 22 July 2018. At the meeting, ministers discussed cryptocurrency and issued a communique stating that while it remains under scrutiny, it does not pose a threat to the global. дальше »

2018-7-24 15:00


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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


Bitcoin Bubbles – This is not our first rodeo – Bitcoin USD … – Looking for alpha

Data Source: blockchain.com On June 10, 2011, the price of a single bitcoin was $35, an incredible high at the time. The Bitcoin bubble of 2011 – analyzing the Bitcoin network’s response Confirmed transactions and Bitcoin price in 2011 During that time, it’s interesting to look at the relationship between the number of daily transactions дальше »

2018-7-21 10:18