Who stands to benefit from a spam attack on the Bitcoin network?

As discussed earlier , the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While at least some of this was an ho...

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...

Shipping without incentives and features

Recently I was doing some research into Factom , a new project that aims to embed a lot of data into the Bitcoin blockchain and create a ...

How to kill a currency

A lot of people have spelled Bitcoin's doom in the past. From a 51% attack to some other vulnerabilities, a lot of technical pitfalls ar...

Convenient bugs and arbitrary features

As with any software out there, Bitcoin and related cryptocurrency systems occasionally get bugs and change some features of the network. Th...

Smart contracts and the demise of copycoins

Today I would like to talk about a few ways smart contracts in Crypto 2.0 systems can lead to the demise of copycoins. Lets start with some...