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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria

Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, valuing the company at around $1 billion USD. According to Reuters, Jumia, which already claims to be Africa’s first “unicorn” based on how much investment it has received, is considering a possible New York listing early next year. дальше »

2018-10-2 15:55


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Who Would Watch Vitalik Buterin and Craig “Satoshi” Wright Livestream Debate?

Who Wants To See Vitalik Buterin and Craig “Satoshi” Wright ‘Debate' One Another in a Livestream Soon? Could we see two of the biggest names in the crypto community debate each other in a livestream? Yesterday we posted this which goes into much more in-depth dialogue as to what is unfolding between the possible Ethereum […] дальше »

2018-8-26 20:37


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


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18


Why do we have Ethereum [ETH] vs ETC today? CZ retaliates to Vitalik Buterin’s comment

Mr. Changpeng Zhao [CZ], the CEO of Binance, countered Vitalik Buterin’s comment at the TechCrunch event which stated: “I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell as much as possible. ” Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, gave his strong perspective on centralized and decentralized exchanges. дальше »

2018-7-12 12:24


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