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Proof of Stake, Private Keys Attacks & Unforgeable Costliness

Is there a single key factor in the difference between the assurances in PoS vs PoW? The knowledge and proof that there is a real world, inescapable cost to both producing the currency, & editing the chain history – unforgeable costliness.  Learn about this, the private keys attacks that risk entire contesting histories in PoS systems, and to the nothing-at-stake problem. This and more in today’s read!

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CryptoQuikRead_331 – Proof of Stake & The Wrong Engineering Mindset [Hugo Nguyen]

What is the true set of differences between Proof of Work, and Proof of Stake? What are the engineering mindsets behind them both, and which is built explicitly to survive in the worst-case scenarios? Find out this and more in today’s read of Hugo Nguyen’s excellent piece “Proof of Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset.”…

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CryptoQuikRead_331 – Proof of Stake & The Wrong Engineering Mindset [Hugo Nguyen]

What is the true set of differences between Proof of Work, and Proof of Stake? What are the engineering mindsets behind them both, and which is built explicitly to survive in the worst-case scenarios?
Find out this and more in today’s read of Hugo Nguyen’s excellent piece “Proof of Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset.” This will be the beginning of a short series that will finish out our week attacking the PoS design from all angles. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.

Follow Hugo on Twitter and Medium to explore his other great work and so you don’t miss his next one!
https://twitter.com/hugohanoi
https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engineering-mindset-15e641ab65a2
Other great Episodes and works mentioned in today’s commentary:
Nassim Taleb’s “Block Swan”
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=black+swan+nassim&qid=1576710842&s=books&sr=1-1
CarCampit’s “Bitcoin Blockade runner”
https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_160—Bitcoin–Blockade-Runner-of-the-Information-Age-CarCampit-e2ndpf
The Drunkard’s Walk
https://amzn.to/2Mzzr2K
The Bitcoin Survivor’s Book List
https://thecryptoconomy.com/bitcoin-survivors-book-list/

Hugo Nguyen’s other great articles in audio:
Ethereum Architecture is Flawed
• https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_223—Ethereum-Architecture-is-Flawed-Hugo-Nguyen-e3i5k1
Anatomy of Proof of Work
• https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_158—Anatomy-of-Proof-of-Work-Part-1—Hugo-Nguyen-e2ndpg
Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness
• https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_159—Bitcoin–Chance–and-Randomness-Part-2—Hugo-Nguyen-e2ndpi

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Proof of Stake & The Wrong Engineering Mindset

What is the true set of differences between Proof of Work, and Proof of Stake? What are the engineering mindsets behind them both, and which is built explicitly to survive in the worst-case scenarios?

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CryptoChat_029 – With David Hollerith & the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

Don’t forget to check out the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast and follow Dave on Twitter! https://twitter.com/DsHollers https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine Additional resources from the chat: • Does Bitcoin Need Accountants? (audio) • A Most Peaceful Revolution (audio) • Cryptoconomy website • Bitcoin Time Traveller (audio) • Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (audio) • The Sovereign Individual — Send in…

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CryptoChat_029 – With David Hollerith & the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

Don’t forget to check out the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast and follow Dave on Twitter!
https://twitter.com/DsHollers
https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine

Additional resources from the chat:
• Does Bitcoin Need Accountants? (audio)
• A Most Peaceful Revolution (audio)
• Cryptoconomy website
• Bitcoin Time Traveller (audio)
• Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (audio)
• The Sovereign Individual

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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CryptoQuikRead_330 – Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? [Aaron Van Wirdum]

Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called “Easypaysy,” developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for…

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Does Bitcoin Need Accounts?

Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for every payment.

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CryptoQuikRead_329 – Bitcoin, Not Blockchain [Parker Lewis]

Next up in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis and available on the incredible blog over at unchained-capital.com is “Bitcoin, Not Blockchain.“ There is nothing about blockchain that makes it inherently immutable. Immutability emerges over time as the consequence of economic incentives and a native monetary unit that secures those incentives. It is…

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