Secondary and debt markets for exchanges

As discussed last week , Bitfinex has followed through with their bail-in and gave all of their users a 36% "haircut" . While not ...

Avoiding Bitfinex scenarios with Voting Pools

This week, a high-profile Bitcoin theft took place at the Bitfinex exchange. The attacker reportedly stole 119'756BTC, worth about 70.5...

Contentious Bitcoin fork WILL create a split

The Bitcoin community has debated a potential hardfork to Bitcoin  for over a year now . There have been various solutions proposed to chang...

How not to blockchain - a look at OneCoin

In the recent weeks there has been a resurgence of news about OneCoin , what appears to be a high-profile MLM ponzi scheme  disguised as an ...

Transactional currencies - Entry Credits and Gas

DISCLAIMER: While I work for Factom, the opinions expressed in this piece are, as always, my own. ---- Working at Factom  I came across an i...

1 BTC Giveaway

Menangkan 1 BTC dengan menjawab survey singkat. Kompetisi ini akan berakhir pada 23:59 WIB tanggal 27 Juli 2016. Untuk menjawab survey silah...

The Bitcoin Bullshit List

If you hand around the Bitcoin space for awhile, you will inadvertently come across a few or a few hundred   copycoins , scamcoins, scams, p...

A retrospective on one hundred posts

Last week marked a 100th post I have posted on this blog since about 2.5 years I've been blogging somewhat regularly. Today I would lik...

Perfection or bust - the rise and fall of The DAO

Full disclosure - I own some ether and I have put some of it into The DAO presale. I don't think it coloured my view of the situation, b...

Bitcoin historical rallies, halvenings and bubbles

As of the time of writing, we are less than 4'000 blocks / one month away from Bitcoin's second halvening  (the 4-year block reward...

Tau-Chain - a programmer's perspective

EDIT: After speaking to Ohad Asor, the creator of Tau, about the below piece, it's apparently "blatant obvious nonsense about thing...