A system like Bitcoin has extremely strong requirements about consistency in behavior: all nodes on … Read more
The Howey Test
The Howey Test refers to the U.S. Supreme Court case for determining whether a transaction … Read more
Triple Halving – Ethereum
https://www.coingecko.com/learn/ethereum-triple-halving
Halving in cryptocurrency is a reduction in rewards allocated to miners, validators, or anyone … Read more
Bitcoin Replace-By-Fee (RBF)
A Bitcoin transaction can be designated as RBF in order to allow the sender to … Read more
Failing Crypto Products & Trust
Excerpts from a Marty Bent article:
Soon after releasing bitcoin version 0.1 in 2009, Satoshi … Read more
Censorship Resistance
- The freedom to transact: Third parties cannot prevent you from sending or receiving assets.
Issues With DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
A synopsis of: https://blockgeeks.com/is-defi-dead/
Decentralized applications and protocols created on blockchain technology facilitate open, trustless, … Read more
Coin Mixing – Tornado Cash
Tornado Cash is a non-custodial privacy solution for the Ethereum network based on zkSNARKs technology.… Read more
ETH Mining Notes
Ethereum Classic, the coin that’s currently the most popular mining option in the market, … Read more
Merkle Root
In the bitcoin original paper, these trees are mentioned as a way to reclaim … Read more