Money, blockchains, and social scalability

Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

Money, blockchains, and social scalability

Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

Introduction to Holochain, A Post-Blockchain Crypto Technology - unblock.net

When Bitcoin entered the scene in 2008/2009, it wasn’t with a bang. Designed as an alternative to the legacy financial system, it attracted little attention at first, not least because few people really understood it. For the first few years,… Continue reading Introduction to Holochain, A Post-Blockchain Crypto Technology

Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon

Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.

Big Brain Holdings

We are witnessing the early stages of a technological revolution, with blockchain at its core—a shift as impactful as the advent of the internet.

I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to learn to love the blockchain | TechCrunch

I apologize. I get it. You hear "blockchain" and you immediately think "shady get-rich-quick schemes" or "bubble of magical fake Internet money" or

Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future

This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current…

Trust: the inside story of the rise and fall of Ethereum | Aeon Essays

Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There’s just one problem: trust

The Truth About Blockchain

Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t kept up with the world’s digital transformation. They’re like rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently, and very efficiently. For instance, while the transfer of a share of stock can now take up to a week, with blockchain it could happen in seconds. Blockchain could slash the cost of transactions and eliminate intermediaries like lawyers and bankers, and that could transform the economy. But, like the adoption of more internet technologies, blockchain’s adoption will require broad coordination and will take years. In this article the authors describe the path that blockchain is likely to follow and explain how firms should think about investments in it.

The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising

The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising By Izzy Otomakan Follow @cryptoizzy I recognize the irony that barely a few months afte...

Notes on Blockchain Governance | HackerNoon

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.See also: https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/against-on-chain-governance-a4ceacd040ca

Beyond Blockchain: Simple Scalable Cryptocurrencies

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The Economics of Filecoin

How it stacks up against Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash & Tezos

Funding the Evolution of Blockchains

Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their…

Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet | TechCrunch

Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum's initial release, published an essay entitled "What Does Ether At $100 Mean?" Since then it has doubled. Too many altcoins to name have skyrocketed in value along with the Big Two. ICOs are raking in money hand over fist over bicep. What the hell is going on?