Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work
Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that is guaranteed to remain CPU-friendly and resistant…
Read More »Rippl Recovers And Heads For The High At $0.40
Ripple (XRP) rises when it crosses above the moving average lines. The value of the cryptocurrency asset increased from $0.34 to $0.37.
Read More »Ethereum Faces Another Hurdle On Its Way To Historic High Of $1,678
The Ethereum price (ETH) rose to a high of $1,439 on January 12. As the Ether price continued to hold above the $1,400 support in the last 24 hours, a…
Read More »On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going to receive the currency units, at what…
Read More »What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every transaction, is a very hard problem, and…
Read More »Bitcoin Climbs To $18,380 As Bull Fatigue Sets In
The Bitcoin (BTC) price has risen above the $18,000 level after two months of sluggish movement.
Read More »Ethereum Project Update
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of the software platform — is on track and many developers…
Read More »Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing to create your own blockchain, manage complicated…
Read More »Decentralized Ecosystem With Over 25 Cryptocurrencies
2022 was one of the hardest year for crypto world. FTX bankruptcy finally damaged users’ trust in centralized exchanges and they began to wonder whether the storage of client funds…
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