Minggu, 31 Mei 2015

BitShares - probably the first self-sustaining DAO

For over a year, the Bitcoin world has been intrigued with the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations  - quasi-corporations follo...

Kamis, 28 Mei 2015

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...

Senin, 25 Mei 2015

BitUSD vs USD IOUs

Last Thursday at Decentral Vancouver  we were discussing BitShares and BitUSD with Max Wright  (I recommend his BitShares 101 series of vid...

Sabtu, 23 Mei 2015

Inert versus volatile currencies - pondering an attack on BitUSD

When thinking about a currency on a simple exchange as a fairly inert object. You can throw money at the market, swing it up or down, but wi...

Kamis, 21 Mei 2015

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...

Rabu, 20 Mei 2015

Digital identities and the blockchain

In the recent years there have been a few attempts at creating digital identities using cryptography and the blockchain. We had BitID using...

Kamis, 14 Mei 2015

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...

Rabu, 06 Mei 2015

On FinCEN fines and regulations - the fate of token IPOs

Yesterday the news about Ripple Labs being fined by FinCEN  for their sale of XRP without an MSB license  came out. While some have rejoice...

Minggu, 03 Mei 2015

Time banking - economics of sharing economy - pondering Time Republik

Recently at Decentral Vancouver  we had a visit from folks from Time Republik , a time banking platform for a sharing economy. We discussed ...