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...

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...

Pondering Proof of Importance

Recently, I listened to a Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast discussing NEM (New Economy Movement), a new Crypto 2.0 system . So far, I was una...

Fighting Bitcoin spam with Bitcoin Days Destroyed

As many of you might've noticed, the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While the problem is no...

Mining versus Consensus algorithms in Crypto 2.0 systems

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs  about a topic that I haven't heard cov...