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Numbers that count: Debunking the fundamentals of BTC money flow

We are still in the early days of research into the effects of bitcoin transaction volumes on-chain and on-exchange to filter one from the other and sort the spam from the valid transactions. While there isn't universal agreement on one pure metric we can at least acknowledge some of the fallacies of measuring transaction volume and Bitcoin supply/demand and look at the latest efforts from various resources to gauge real volume дальше »

2018-10-10 14:00


ShapeShift CEO Enters Bitcoin Battlefront, Calls Out Wall Street Journal’s “Crypto for Criminal Money” Story

Cryptocurencies are often criticized for many reasons. Some of them are valid and others are not, but in either case they can be infuriating for the people in the industry sometimes. Fury is probably the sentiment that has driven the CEO of ShapeShift, Erik Voorhees, to bash the Wall Street Journal for a recent publication […] дальше »

2018-10-2 02:47


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


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


DoJ Sentences Women Trading In ‘Bitcoin For Cash’ To One Year In Prison

A women cryptocurrency trader, “Bitcoin Maven”, was sentenced to 366 days prison term by the Department of Justice (DoJ) for practising the trade without a valid license. In news of perhaps the first conviction of women coin trader, the DoJ held Theresa Lynn Tetley, aged 50 years for intentionally breaking financial regulatory rules and laws. дальше »

2018-7-13 16:48


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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Bitcoin Remains the Best Cryptocurrency Investment, According to Wall Street Trader

Bitcoin has had a rough 2018. However, it is still hands down the best cryptocurrency investment — an opinion shared by one prominent Wall Street trader.   ‘The use case for bitcoin is valid today’ While the vast majority of the cryptocurrency market remains speculative at best, Bitcoin remains one of the only cryptocurrencies which people are actually using. дальше »

2018-7-11 19:00