Contentious Bitcoin fork WILL create a split joni Agustus 01, 2016 Add Comment 51% attack, Bitcoin, BitcoinXT, Ethereum, Exchanges, fork Edit The Bitcoin community has debated a potential hardfork to Bitcoin for over a year now . There have been various solutions proposed to chang... Read More
Irrational Bitcoin mining joni Desember 07, 2015 Add Comment 21, 51% attack, Bitcoin, game theory, hardware, mining, P2Pool Edit Last week we discussed the economics of P2Pool mining with low-powered miners . One of the more interesting comments I came across while do... Read More
How to kill a currency joni Desember 13, 2014 Add Comment 51% attack, CounterParty, Mastercoin, Ripple, sanctions, Stellar Edit 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... Read More
Proof of Stake lacks a fail-safe joni November 22, 2014 Add Comment 51% attack, BitShares, Proof of Stake, Proof of Work Edit I've discussed my various doubts about the delegated Proof of Stake a few moths back. Thinking about it some more recently, I have one ... Read More
Why fast maturing altcoins are doomed to fail, or why $30 dollars a day is not enough to secure Quarkcoin joni Desember 07, 2013 Add Comment 51% attack, Altcoins, Bill Still, Bitcoin, Max Keiser, mining, Quakcoin Edit Recently I came across Quarkcoin, a Bitcoin-based altcoin with a very fast maturation. The blocks start with 2048QRK reward and halve every ... Read More