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User Pays $2.6 Million to Transfer Just $130 Worth of ETH; By Far the Highest Fees Ever Paid

After climbing above $240, the second-largest cryptocurrency has slowed down and is keeping around this level. The percent of Ether supply in profit, which is the percentage of calculating ETH whose price at the last time it moved on-chain was lower than the current price, is currently hovering at 80%. It is the third attempt […] дальше »

2020-6-11 17:56


Investor Activity in Bitcoin Is ‘Fizzing Out’ As Market Undergoes A Black Swan Event

Earlier last month, Bitcoin broke above $10,000 that on-chain analyst Willy Woo said was the “real deal”. “Fundamental investment activity is backing this $10k breakout,” said Woo at that time. However, as we saw in the past few weeks, bitcoin has been acting like a risky asset following the stock market, going from above $10,500 […] дальше »

2020-3-10 17:14


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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live

Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian. дальше »

2019-4-24 01:38


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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


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