Результатов: 70
Фото:

zk-SNARK Glitch Could Result In Crypto Double Take

Fundamental flaws with zk-SNARKs, the privacy algorithm used in Zcash (ZEC), may allow malicious agents to mint additional tokens, according to the COO of a rival privacy coin. Reuben Yap, the Chief Operating Officer at Zcoin (XZC), says that unproved cryptographic assumptions and possible bugs with zk-SNARKs place blockchains using the algorithm – like Zcash – […] The post zk-SNARK Glitch Could Result In Crypto Double Take appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2019-1-17 18:53


Фото:

Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase

Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. дальше »

2019-1-1 19:31


Tim Draper: Bitcoin’s Destined to be Worth $250,000 By 2023 Despite Current Path Uncertainty

Are you missing the presence of Bitcoin bulls who makes incredibly far-fetched assumptions of how Bitcoin will be worth a lot in the future? Brace yourselves. Here we go again. Tim Draper, a crypto investor and billionaire, has reaffirmed that his price prediction for Bitcoin being worth $250,000 USD by 2022 is “absolutely solid”. He […] дальше »

2018-11-10 05:36


Your Ideal Bitcoin Portfolio: Some Fun Investing Goals

Investing goals have always been subject to market risks. Assumedly the risks magnify manifold when you are considering investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Despite certain risk assumptions being factored into such investments, the question of ‘how much’ of an ideal portfolio should consist of non-government currency investments will bother every crypto investor. дальше »

2018-10-18 16:39


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


Фото:

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


Фото:

How Diversifying A Crypto Portfolio Increases Investor Risk

A common question coming from cryptocurrency investors and traders is: how should I allocate my portfolio? Common portfolio management wisdom in traditional finance tells us to diversify holdings, but is diversification possible in cryptocurrencies? To answer this question we need to analyze several underlying assumptions and variables. дальше »

2018-6-14 18:57


12