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Bitmain Monopoly is Showing Cracks, According to Analysts

The top cryptocurrency mining company might be losing its edge as demand for its products is under pressure and competition grows stronger, according to analysts. “The Competitiveness of Bitmain’s Chips is in Question” A recent report of analysts led by Mark Li at Bernstein holds that the Beijing-based mining company, which was co-founded by the 32-year-old Jihan Wu, might have to write down the actual value of its inventory. дальше »

2018-8-23 16:00


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


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