Minimizing Failure Vector Surfaces for Digital Securities
Modern capitalists and ancient Chinese may disagree on many things, but the one thing they do seem to agree on relates to security of the real...
Who do you trust with your Crypto?
“The great thing about trustless cryptocurrency systems is just how many incompetents you have to trust along the way.” - David Gerard, author of A...
The Right Technology – The Case of Mercury Cash
Nothing proves the wisdom of choosing the right technology for the right job than the case of Mercury Cash, a hosted-wallet solution for real-time ...
Decentralized vs Distributed Systems Part I
Blockchain per se is not about decentralization; rather, it is a distributed system technology. The two terms, decentralized system and distributed...
Technologies of Blockchain Part 4: Conclusion
In parts 1, 2 and 3, we briefly touched on some of the historical foundations of blockchains from computer science and mathematics, including their...
Technologies of Blockchain Part 3: Cryptography, Scaling,...
In Part 2, we saw how a simple concept of a linked list can morph into complex, distributed systems. Obviously, this is a simple, conceptual evolut...
Technologies of Blockchain – Part 2: Distributed Sy...
We saw in Part 1 that linked lists provide the conceptual foundation for blockchain, where a ‘block’ is a package of data and blocks are strung tog...
Technologies of Blockchain – Part 1: The Foundations
Blockchain is not just a single technology but a package of a number of technologies and techniques. The rich lexicon in the blockchain includes te...
The Three Fallacies of Smart Contracts
Smart contracts have become popular due to the extensibility of the Ethereum blockchain beyond its main foundation as a cryptocurrency platform, wh...
Forking – the New ‘F’ Word in Blockchain
Forking seems to be an integral part of the Blockchain architecture. This is due to Blockchain’s decentralized nature and the need to establish sys...
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