Hard fork contingency plans and SegWit readiness - a challenge to solution evangelists joni Maret 29, 2017 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Unlimited, fork Edit Currently, the biggest discussion in the Bitcoin community concerns the possible forks we might see this year - Bitcoin Unlimited and SegWit... Read More
Avoiding Bitfinex scenarios with Voting Pools joni Agustus 08, 2016 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, Bitfinex, hack, Ripple, theft, Voting Pools Edit This week, a high-profile Bitcoin theft took place at the Bitfinex exchange. The attacker reportedly stole 119'756BTC, worth about 70.5... Read More
Perfection or bust - the rise and fall of The DAO joni Juni 20, 2016 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, bugs, DAO, Ethereum, hack, Ripple Edit Full disclosure - I own some ether and I have put some of it into The DAO presale. I don't think it coloured my view of the situation, b... Read More
Pondering Proof of Importance joni September 28, 2015 Add Comment Attacks, Crypto 2.0, NEM Edit Recently, I listened to a Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast discussing NEM (New Economy Movement), a new Crypto 2.0 system . So far, I was una... Read More
Fighting Bitcoin spam with Bitcoin Days Destroyed joni Juli 09, 2015 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, Spam Edit As many of you might've noticed, the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While the problem is no... Read More
Mining versus Consensus algorithms in Crypto 2.0 systems joni Mei 28, 2015 Add Comment Attacks, Bitcoin, BitShares, Consensus, CounterParty, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, Mastercoin, mining, Omni, Ripple Edit Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs about a topic that I haven't heard cov... Read More