Top Ten Crypto Websites
The internet is full of crypto sites. The moment you type ‘crypto’ into any search engine, hundreds, if not thousands of crypto sites show...
Whitfield Diffie Talks Cryptography ‘Resurgence’ and Blockchain
“This is very fulfilling because when you thought the subject must have run its course, it flares up again.”
Those words, from cryptography legend...
Ethereum After the Merge: What Comes Next?
At the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris, the Ethereum blockchain’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, shared what he expects for Ethereum in a post-Merge era. Buterin closed the...
SegWit transaction capacity increase compared to Bitcoin Cash
Abstract: In September 2017, we wrote a piece on the SegWit capacity increase. Here, we provide an update on SegWit adoption with six more months of transaction...
Risk of SegWit – Mining Cartels
The bitcoin community continues to debate Segregated Witness, the Bitcoin Core development team’s proposed scaling solution which would separate signature data (witnesses) from transaction...
The People Will See The Value In Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work
Preachin’ to the Choir
The average Bitcoiner from 2016 could argue they do not gain much value from a commentary about proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake. Justifiably...
Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution
Have you heard of the Bitcoin Lightning Network? It is a proposal that claims that:
“using a network of these micropayment channels, Bitcoin can scale to...
Lightning Network Centralization Leads to Economic Censorship
A few months ago, I wrote an article called “Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution”. It received quite a bit of...
What Can a Blockchain Do?
Financial institutions have financed the disruption of countless industries over the last 30 years; they have an idea of what a revolutionary technology can...
Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet
Coinbase breaks down the motivation and technology behind the development of Web 3
This 3-part post focuses on the why, what and how of the latest...
