Gaming Proof of Stake

While working on a draft for a paper for the upcoming Ledger academic journal  I came across the concept of " stake grinding ". Af...

BitShares - probably the first self-sustaining DAO

For over a year, the Bitcoin world has been intrigued with the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations  - quasi-corporations follo...

Proof of Stake lacks a fail-safe

I've discussed my various doubts about the delegated Proof of Stake a few moths back. Thinking about it some more recently, I have one ...

A New Wave of 2nd Generation Cryptocurrencies: NXT, eMunie, SkyCoin, EarthCoin

Recap In my last blog post , I recommended three alt coins to look out for: WorldCoin (WDC) , NXTcoin (NXT), and DogeCoin (DOGE). For those ...