Month: June 2018

The Truth About Smart Contracts

Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are? Or are there serious and often insurmountable challenges that too many ignore? Find out more in @JimmySong’s excellent article on the Truth About Smart Contracts.

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BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization

@TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article breaking down what this could mean for the future of Bitcoin.

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Sharding Centralizes Ethereum

Today we read @StopAndDecrypt’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off. Is ETH an inherently centralizing system? Find out in today’s Quik Read.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future

Covering the weeks top stories with Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review – Looking to the Past and the Future.

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Feared 51% Attacks Are Now Becoming Regular

The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence.

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Introducing Bitcoin Contract Governance

Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin’s contractual governance. A truly global and open platform for economic organization. Don’t miss this one!

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Build the Bitcoin Economy, The Complete Contract Governance Platform

Is Bitcoin a new asset class, a fancy way to buy coffee, digital sound money, or something entirely different and more fundamental?

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Increasing Bitcoin Privacy Using the Lightning Network

One of the features of the Lightning network is its innate benefits to privacy. Listen to a short exploration of privacy in Lightning with Toronex (@scidexer) plus commentary.

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Analysis of Batching in Bitcoin

Has transaction count become an unreliable measure of Bitcoin’s usage because of batching? Find out the answer to this and more thanks to the detailed analysis by coinmetrics.io and hasufly.

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Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes

If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read.

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