by Guy | Sep 10, 2020 | Blockchain, Technology
“This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes are rather counter-intuitive, for example how participants collectively solve a problem without...
by Guy | Jun 17, 2020 | Blockchain, Security
“ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged.” – ION Announcement With the help of Casa and a number of other partners, Microsoft finally releases the beta of their new decentralized ID system, anchored...
by Guy | Feb 26, 2020 | Blockchain
Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world? This was a fascinating Twitter thread by Udi Wertheimer that explores what...
by Guy | Jan 13, 2020 | Blockchain, Security
“It is therefore a universal truth that all work has a measurable cost of energy transformation due to the very nature of the universe, and the laws of thermodynamics. It is with these laws that we underpin Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work.” – Rory...
by Guy | Dec 16, 2019 | Blockchain, Technology
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...
by Guy | Dec 13, 2019 | Beginner, Blockchain, Fundamentals
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...