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MakerDAO’s “DAI” stablecoin is breaking, as predicted
Background This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “Stablecoins are doomed to fail,” from December 10th. I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stable…
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Is Craig Wright?
Today there has been an explosion of media interest in the claim by Craig Wright that he is the identity behind the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. However, his blog post is rath…
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Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners
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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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Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed
Before It Devours The World, Part I
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SENS Research Foundation Receives $2.4M Ethereum Donation from Vitalik Buterin
Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance Research That Will Overcome Age-Related Disease And Extend Healthy Human Lifespan Support LRI Subscribe Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance…
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6-8 Weeks Until Bitcoin Debit/Credit Card, says BitInstant
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Central bank cryptocurrencies
New cryptocurrencies are emerging almost daily, and many interested parties are wondering whether central banks should issue their own versions. But what might central bank cryptocurrencies (CBCCs) look like and would they be useful?
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Concrete: A fully homomorphic encryption compiler
An introduction on how to use the Zama Concrete open source TFHE compiler
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Bit gold (2005)
A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold. The problem, in a nutshell, is that our money currently depends on trust in a third party ...
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Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin
The success of this plugin is due to the lack of a proper export function in the most popular browsers on the market, such as Chrome. Create a proof of a certain date of a web page thanks to Bitcoin
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Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM
Bitcoin ATMs offer a convenient and friendly way for consumers to purchase cryptocurrencies. That ease of use can sometimes come at the expense of security. Kraken Security Labs has uncovered multiple hardware and software vulnerabilities in a commonly used cryptocurrency ATM: The General Bytes BATMtwo (GBBATM2)…
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How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin
If you want to invest in bitcoin for the long-haul, you should address the thorny issue of how best to store them. Since people love stealing bitcoins from others more than just about anything else in this world, all storage systems must first and foremost:
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AP reports US election results via Ethereum blockchain
A starting point for developers interested in AP Elections API. Get real-time results of national, state and local elections, from poll close to certification.
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Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer.
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Blockchain Basics
The SitePen blog gives educational tips for solving big business problems and achieving technical objectives.
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Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
David Wong writes about cryptography, security, and programming.
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Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency
So it’s a scam, and you’ll lose all your money, but on the plus side, you’ll have helped make the only habitable planet we have uninhabitable.
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Fintech in Chains
"Fintech can come out of the shadows" is the title that Wall Street Journal editors gave to Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris' oped last week . I have not in a long time seen a title that more utterly contradicts the content of the essay. For what they advocate is exactly the opposite: Fintech in chains, hemmed in by…
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Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)
Every Bitcoin transaction is stored in the distributed database known as the Bitcoin blockchain. However, people have found ways to hack ...
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Ethereum Homestead release
<strong>Update: We've released <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.3.5">version 1.3.5</a> including networking hotfix for...