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Codex: A Legal Scripting Language for Ethereum
Pax is using Ethereum to build a peer to peer legal system. The best way to explain Ethereum is by contrasting it with Bitcoin. What…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 850 posts.
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Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available
The first complete draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available. We’re very happy with how the book turned out: it’s comprehensive, at over 300 pages, but has a conversational style that keeps it readable. If you’re looking to truly understand how Bitcoin works at a technical level and have a basic…
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Funding, Incentives, and Governance
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…
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ZCash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin) technology preview
I’m extremely happy to announce the Zcash project. Zcash (formerly “Zerocash”/“Zerocoin”) is a project to create a new currency for the Internet, inspired by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an amazing and complex…
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Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin
I’ve been writing about the Bitcoin blocksize debate here at AVC (the only place I write and I’m hard core about that) for the past year. It’s a big deal. At the core of the debate is whether the Bitcoin blockchain should be a settlement layer that supports a number of new blockchains that can […]
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Keybase's New Key Model
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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The 21 Bitcoin Computer
by Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis)
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Why is Bitcoin forking?
A tale of differing visions
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Final Steps
An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who...
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Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions
This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last update: 2015-07-15 13:00. All times are UTC.
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Bitcoin: A flawed currency with a useful application for the Eurozone (2014)
The responses of many to my post on Bitcoin reveal a powerful tendency to underestimate the ill-effects of deflation on a social economy. This tendency to underestimate deflation’s deleterious impact matters beyond debates on Bitcoin per se. For example, in Europe the incapacity of the European Central Bank (ECB) to…
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction – Part II
In the previous post , we have seen how elliptic curves over the real numbers can be used to define a group. Specifically, we have defined a rule for point addition : given three aligned points, their sum is zero ($P + Q + R = 0$). We have derived a geometric method and an algebraic method for computing point…
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Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash
Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorith...
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A Bitcoin miner in every hand
By Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis)
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
Those of you who know what public-key cryptography is may have already heard of ECC , ECDH or ECDSA . The first is an acronym for Elliptic Curve Cryptography, the others are names for algorithms based on it.
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High Frequency Trading on the Coinbase Exchange
by Andrew Barisser
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The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins
The official blog of WizSec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, and their investigation into MtGox.