Rabu, 31 Desember 2014

Ripple as middleware

As many people may know, the current banking system is a mess when you're dealing in multiple currencies. We have disjointed networks de...

Senin, 22 Desember 2014

The need for a new measurement of value

As many of you might be familiar, there are a few key functions money needs to perform in our society. While the exact list may vary, here ...

Jumat, 19 Desember 2014

Crypto success vs. Bitcoin success

After researching a lot of Crypto 2.0 systems ( tiny.cc/Crypto ), I started thinking about whether some systems could surpass Bitcoin. We h...

Sabtu, 13 Desember 2014

How to kill a currency

A lot of people have spelled Bitcoin's doom in the past. From a 51% attack to some other vulnerabilities, a lot of technical pitfalls ar...

Kamis, 11 Desember 2014

Convenient bugs and arbitrary features

As with any software out there, Bitcoin and related cryptocurrency systems occasionally get bugs and change some features of the network. Th...

Selasa, 02 Desember 2014

The paradox of presales - pondering Gems

A few weeks ago during one of the Vancouver Bitcoin Meetups , we were introduced to the Gems platform . Gems is a social messaging app that ...