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...

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...

Transaction data vs metadata - interpreting what has happened

With Bitcoin as well as most " Crypto 1.0 " currencies, the transactions are simple and elegant. You specify which coins you'r...

Big blocks, small blocks, side-blocks, off-blocks...

In the recent week Bitcoin has experienced another "stress test" in form of a lot of transaction spam  (see below for a chart of t...

Sample bankchain feature set

In the recent months, many banks and other financial institutions started looking into the blockchain technology as a potential improvement...

The Money Protocols - Bitcoin, blockchain and others

I was recently sent a link to an article discussing the development of "the money protocol". The idea has been around for awhile ...

The dawn of the great crypto extinction and reimplementation

In the crypto world, there are hundreds if not more of cryptocurrencies. However, just like we saw an explosion of cryptocurrency projects ...

Pervasive banking

In computer science, there is a concept of " pervasive computing " - an idea that instead of using a specific device to perform co...

A legitimate reason for premining tokens

In the Bitcoin world, the term "premining" is a dirty word and for a good reason. There have been numerous preminted altcoins out ...