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Mathematical Mystery: Why Did The Bitcoin Rally Stop At The Golden Ratio?
Bitcoin is one of the most interesting and powerful pieces of mathematical code out there, launched as an open source project by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. In yet another one of the many ways math and mystery come together in relation to the cryptocurrency, its origins, and the underlying technology, the current peak in recent […] дальше »
2021-4-2 04:00 | |
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XRP: Can Mathematical Targets For Ripple Realistically Reach $26?
XRP is often the butt of many jokes across the crypto space due to general distaste toward the altcoin and years of underperformance. But one of the biggest running jokes going is a call made for $589 per token, considered a mathematical impossibility. дальше »
2020-7-23 04:00 | |
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity. дальше »
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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10 Things You Should Never Do When Preparing Your Cryptocurrency Taxes
For millions of people, cryptocurrency makes perfect sense. Its neatly defined rules, mathematical certainty, and resistance to being co-opted by certain interest groups make it one of the soundest, and most apolitical financial tools ever created. дальше »
2019-10-10 18:16 | |
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Understanding PLONK
Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”. дальше »
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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Lightning Network Routing: Privacy and Efficiency In A Positive-Sum Game
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, as everybody knows. Except it’s not true — at least not outside of a Euclidean universe of mathematical abstraction. Everyone who’s watched lightning knows that it doesn’t travel in a straight line. дальше »
2019-8-2 20:42 | |
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FunFair Makes ‘Fun’ and ‘Fair’ Gaming Possible With Its Blockchain Solutions
In the world of gambling, “house edge” revolves around one simple principle. Over time, the casino, or “house,” will gain a mathematical advantage over their players or a greater chance to win more often than their patrons, hence the saying – “The House Always Wins. дальше »
2019-3-19 14:09 | |
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so. дальше »
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Quantum Threat
IBM has just come out with the world’s very first commercially available quantum computer known as the Q System One. For those of you who aren’t familiar, quantum computers think a bit differently than the PCs and smartphones we have now and are much better at solving complex mathematical problems. дальше »
2019-1-12 07:00 | |
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Bitcoin Could Increase Global Temperature by 2 Degrees, Claims New Report
Bitcoin is the world’s first cryptocurrency and the most dominant one too. Bitcoin accounts for around 50 percent of the total market capitalization of the world’s 2000+ digital coins. However, Bitcoin also introduced us to a new concept – cryptocurrency mining. дальше »
2018-10-31 18:29 | |
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Under What Circumstances Would Bitcoin Adoption Decrease its Value?
Will Bitcoin Adoption Decrease its Value? A mathematical concept, called the Quantity Theory of Money, suggests that mass adoption of bitcoin could decrease its value – even if one of the values is fixed at 21 million. дальше »
2018-10-9 20:14 | |
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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge
Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape. дальше »
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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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 | |
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Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design
Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away. дальше »
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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