There is an excellent post from Richard Gendal Brown last week, “Why the payment card system works the way it does – and why Bitcoin isn’t going to replace it any time soon.”
Below are some other interesting links I have come across or were sent to me:
- Whitecoin’s post-51% attack announcement (happened 2 months ago)
- Blockpad: Improved Proof-of-work function with descentralization incentives by Sergio Lerner
- Common Accord by Primavera De Filippi (smart contract framework)
- Address by Director of Markets Supervision Gareth Murphy at the BitFin 2014: Digital Money and the Future of Finance Conference (from Irish Central Bank; see CoinDesk coverage too)
- EU Banks Must Shun Bitcoin Until Rules in Place, EBA Says from Bloomberg (see the 70 point risk chart too)
- History nugget: Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner, launched on May 20, 2011 (here is the official Bitcoin Talk thread)
- I AM HODLING (the infamous Bitcoin Talk thread that spawned the meme)
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Re: Bounty for successful nothing at stake attack? (good thread on NXT about proof of stake, this comment is from Vitalik Buterin)
- Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem by Timothy Lee (old post but makes some accurate predictions as to what would happen to regulations and bitcoin)
- New Private Monies A Bit-Part Player? by Kevin Dowd (some sobering comments in pages 55-59)
- Mining Decentralisation: The Low Hanging Fruit by Mike Hearn
- Bithalo, Blackhalo, and NightTrader: Revolutionary Smart Contracts Technology Now in Beta from Cryptocoins News (see also Brandon Wilson at Ripple Labs)
- Floating Fees for 0.10 by Gavin Andresen
