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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


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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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‘Extinguishing Capacity’: Bitcoin Could Swallow All M1 Fiat At $223K Per Coin

$223,186 is the price Bitcoin would need to be in order to convert the entire world supply of fiat currency, industry figures calculated July 2. M1 Fiat Could Go At Less Than $250k Part of an ongoing debate on social media, Blockstream CEO Adam Back and CSO Samson Mow joined Bitcoin Think editor Beautyon in discussing the phenomenon of ‘hyperbitcoinization’ – the as yet untested process by which consumers abandon fiat en masse for Bitcoin. дальше »

2018-7-3 00:00


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Bitcoin Price Analysis: New Low on Low Volume Breeds Potential Bullish Set-up

Bitcoin sits precariously perched at the bottom of the annual market low and many bitcoin investors aren’t sure what to make of it. Although the market seems to be continuing its drift to new lows with greater and greater ease, there are a couple of bullish signals worth considering while the market continues to consolidate: Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, New Market LowOn Friday, June 29, 2018, for the first time this year, the daily candles closed below the annual low of $6,000s. дальше »

2018-7-1 19:35


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Relief As Markets Start To Climb, Is This Correction Or The Start Of Something Bigger?

Throughout the weekend, the markets have taken a significant tumble, a tumble that in turn has dragged the majority of cryptocurrencies right down to new 2-month lows. As a matter of fact, numerous currencies have lost so much value, people are starting to wonder if they will ever return to the heights experienced back in December and January. дальше »

2018-6-25 12:00