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Good News! Over $1 billion worth of Crypto to be Returned to victims of Mt.Gox Hack

An end has not come to the controversy that surrounded the first cryptocurrency exchange and the world’s largest holder of bitcoin trades as at 2014. Mt. Gox saga made way for the likes of Tim Draper and the Winklevoss twins Tyler and Cameron the cofounders of Gemini exchange to make good fortune through the stolen […] The post Good News! Over $1 billion worth of Crypto to be Returned to victims of Mt.Gox Hack appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-8-25 21:56


Why Major Crypto Exchange OKEx Controversially Used User Funds to Liquidate Bitcoin Contract

OKEx, the second biggest crypto exchange by daily trading volume, officially announced the decision to engage in a forced liquidation to settle a massive long contract. On July 31, 2018, a user with the ID 2051247, the largest individual holder of Bitcoin and Ethereum on the platform, entered a long position worth $460 million. дальше »

2018-8-4 00:00


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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