Unknown 2:29 AM Add Comment Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto 2.0, Presentation, Projects Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin... Read More
Unknown 9:57 AM Add Comment Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto 2.0, Presentation, Projects Bitcoin and Beyond - a presentation Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin... Read More
Unknown 5:31 AM Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, Spam 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... Read More
Unknown 7:30 PM Add Comment Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Euro, Europe, Greece, Ripple Cryptos - the anti-euro In the light of recent banking problems in Greece, it might be interesting to revisit the ideas behind the Euro and how they hold up in the ... Read More
Unknown 11:39 AM Add Comment Bitcoin, BitcoinXT, Exchanges, fork Handling bitcoins during a hard fork - pondering Bitcoin XT As everyone might've heard by now, there is a big debate in the Bitcoin community about whether or not we should increase the block size... Read More
Unknown 11:45 PM 12 Comments Attacks, Bitcoin, BitShares, Consensus, CounterParty, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, Mastercoin, mining, Omni, Ripple 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... Read More
Unknown 11:03 PM Add Comment 21, ASIC, Bitcoin, mining Much ado about nothing - pondering 21Inc In the last few months a lot of people have been talking about the "mysterious 21 Inc " - a Bitcoin startup that raised $116M in r... Read More
Unknown 11:04 PM Add Comment art, Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, gold, Ripple Non-fungible currencies - gold bars and art Fungibility is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab... Read More