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Ethereum is Doomed
I fully support the attacker’s actions, and I wish I had thought of it first.
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My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
I’ve spent the last 15 months researching the implications and possibilities of blockchains and related “distributed trust technologies” from a business and societal point of view…
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“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defense
Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
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Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore
Ethereum isn't fun anymore. There I said it. And although, the last time I developed an app using it has been more than a year ago, I stand by my word. Developing dapps on Ethereum has become ann
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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
Or how cash would be described in the press if invented today. Full bitcoin series here : Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide New York, February 17, 2014 World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts
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Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
Understanding the fundamental building blocks of Bitcoin can be daunting for some developers. The purpose of this guide is to explain through simple pieces of code, how Bitcoin works.
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
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Germany: Crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed
Germany: crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed. The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a document defining tax policies.
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What Was TON And Why It Is Over
For the last 2,5 years some of our best engineers have been working on a next-generation blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram. TON was designed to share the principles of decentralization pioneered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, but to be vastly superior to them in speed and…
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Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase
Coinbase and Overstock.com just fixed a serious glitch that allowed Overstock customers to buy any item at a tiny fraction of the listed price. Potentially more punishing, the flaw let anyone paying with bitcoin reap many times the authorized bitcoin refund amount on any canceled Overstock orders.
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WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like g…
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Turning Down a Blockchain Job Offer
I have recently received a job offer to work on a blockchain implementation. While the offer was very generous, I had to turn it down. In this post I want to collect the thoughts that went into my decision process leading to this conclusion.
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How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Jack Schultz's blog.
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Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
Learn to write and modify Zero Knowledge Proofs from scratch. You'll build a digital signature scheme using hash-based commitments, gaining practical ZKP programming skills and intuition along the way. By the end, you'll have all the tools you need to implement things like group signatures.
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Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, like Dave Chappelle, is leveraging the power of the Internet to take control of their art.
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The cryptography behind passkeys
This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.
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No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
To solve Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, many so-called layer 2 protocols have been proposed. All of these protocols operate on the same, relatively simple, principle: