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
P2Pool and low power miners joni Desember 01, 2015 Add Comment 21, decentralized, mining, P2Pool Edit Recently, we got a new insight into 21 Inc's plans for its mining computer / chips - allowing the device to connect and mine on any poo... Read More
21 Bitcoin Computer - the Macintosh of Bitcoin joni November 19, 2015 Add Comment 21, ASIC, hardware, mining, Reddit Edit It looks like the 21 Bitcoin Computer has began shipping recently for $400 apiece. Moreover, we also got a few extra bits of information f... 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
Much ado about nothing - pondering 21Inc joni Mei 21, 2015 Add Comment 21, ASIC, Bitcoin, mining Edit 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... 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
How did it all start? joni Desember 18, 2011 Add Comment Bitcoin, master thesis, mining, value bubble Edit Where did my adventure with Bitcoins start? As far as I remember, it went like this: At the time I was a student of first semester of MSc co... Read More