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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


Swiss Crypto Job Scene Flippening Is Happening As Bankers And Regulators Are Making The Switch

Several Swiss crypto users are becoming bankers too, seeing more value and opportunity in both spaces. Not surprisingly, Swiss banks are not exactly excited about the new move. Early this year, finance ministers from the G20 held a meeting in Argentina, at which time the Swiss stance on cryptocurrency was made clear. Switzerland sees cryptocurrency […] дальше »

2018-8-7 20:23


Many Crypto Investors still Lack Understanding

Despite the current dip in market value, cryptocurrency investment is something that continues to be on the rise. For quite some time now, that’s the most prolific aspect of the crypto market. Investment is happening on a daily basis as many people see the crypto market to be favorable than many others in terms of […] The post Many Crypto Investors still Lack Understanding appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-8-6 22:38


Winklevoss twins’ Bitcoin ETF disapproval doesn’t mean Bitcoin has no value, says SEC

On 26th July, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission disapproved a rule change proposed by the Bats BZX Exchange to trade the Winklevoss twins Bitcoin ETF for the second time. On 30th June 2016, the exchange company had filed for a proposed rule change with the States and Exchanges Commission. The proposal for the rule change […] дальше »

2018-7-28 23:16


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Why Iran Could Be The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Many things happened from the time Bitcoin was conceived as a peer-to-peer electronic cash to the time someone dared to buy two pizzas giving it real monetary value, but it only took one person daring to accept its economic value for a revolution to take place raising its price from pennies to thousand dollars in […] The post Why Iran Could Be The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-26 19:57


Mfun ICO

Mfun is a blockchain rewards platform designed to capture more value from the gaming economy and redistribute that value more fairly to gamers and local game providers. Mfun wants to solve three main inefficiencies which are: (1) Gamers are not rewarded for their time spent playing; (2) Game providers cannot get a good return on their ad spend and (3) Lack of transparency and trust in the gaming economy. дальше »

2018-7-24 22:18


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