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Testing blockchain is needed because we are behind

Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo outlined his agency’s interest in blockchain technology during a Congressional hearing Wednesday, July 25. The chairman emphasized the need for the appropriate procedures that would enable the CFTC to examine innovative blockchain tech for potential future use cases. The hearing, titled “Examining the Upcoming дальше »

2018-7-26 06:01


A U.S.-based startup has unveiled a blockchain which can store data as well as transactions — meaning clients no longer need to trust third parties with their data.

A U.S.-based startup has unveiled a blockchain which can store data as well as transactions — meaning clients no longer need to trust third parties with their data. To enable its Fracton Network blockchain to sync such big amount of data, a new communication protocol — RIFT protocol — has been developed. Each 1.5 GB дальше »

2018-7-25 17:58


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South Korea to Establish Digital Currency Policy-Making Department

South Korea’s financial authority confirmed on July 19, 2018, the implementation of a policymaking department focused exclusively on blockchain technology and related domains. Rising Technology “Leads Financial Innovation” As reported on The Korea Times, the country’s Financial Services Commission decided after careful consideration of the burgeoning blockchain industry and a crucial need for regulation to […] The post South Korea to Establish Digital Currency Policy-Making Department appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-23 09:00


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