The evolving distributed ledger tech landscape
Yesterday I gave an abbreviated presentation based on R3CEV research first publicly shown at the GaiaX – Blockchain University event […]
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2015
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Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on public blockchains
As mentioned a couple weeks ago I have published a new research paper entitled: “Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on public
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What challenges arise when trying to scale watermarked tokens on Bitcoin?
[Note: the following overview on scaling Bitcoin was originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for
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A brief literature review
[Note: the following literature review was originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for space and
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Creative angles of attacking proof-of-work blockchains
[Note: the following views were originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for space and flow
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A few known Bitcoin mining farms
[Note: the following overview on known Bitcoin mining farms was originally included in a new paper but needed to be
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A dissection of two Bitfury papers
Bitfury, the Bitcoin mining company, recently published two papers: Public versus Private Blockchains Part 1, Permissioned Blockchains Public versus Private
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Integrating, Mining and Attacking: Analyzing the Colored Coin “Game”
[Note: Below is a guest post from Ernie Teo, a post-doctorate researcher at SKBI (where I am currently a visiting
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What are a few direct and indirect costs of the “block size debate”?
About six weeks ago I mentioned a dollar figure during a panel at the Consensus event in NYC: $6 million.
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Some housekeeping of events and interviews
It has been a little while since I posted the events, panels and presentations I have been involved with. Below
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The great pivot? Or just this years froth?
About a year ago I briefly explored the PR and branding challenges of Bitcoin, a topic that has been independently
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Designing a Global Fabric for Finance (G3F)
Over the past two weeks there have been a number of news stories related to R3 — a fintech startup
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Cryptocurrency KYSF: Know Your Source of Funds part 2
A few days ago I was asked a number of questions from a reporter at CoinDesk regarding on-chain trade volume;
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What is permissioned-on-permissionless?
As of this writing, more than half of all VC funding to date has gone into building permissioned systems on
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Defining Smart Contracts and Potential Uses
A couple hours ago I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University
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Five Year Vision of Distributed Ledgers
Earlier today I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. All
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Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness Ledgers
A few hours ago I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University
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Brief overview of cryptoeconomics
Earlier this morning I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team.
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Learning from the past to build an improved future of fintech
[Note: below is a slightly edited speech I gave yesterday at a banking event in Palo Alto. This includes all
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A blockchain with emphasis on the “a”
Over the past month a number of VCs including Chris Dixon and Fred Wilson use the term “the blockchain” in
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Panel with financial service professionals involved with baking shared, replicated ledgers into organizations
The last part of the PwC discussion 10 days ago involved a panel with myself moderating, Peter Shiau (COO of
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Q&A regarding the Distributed Ledger Landscape
About 10 days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at Blockchain University (hosted over at PwC) regarding distributed ledgers
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Bram Cohen: “Removing the Waste from Cryptocurrencies: Challenges and More Challenges”
Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, has opined on Bitcoin over the years on social media (such as Twitter). Over
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The Distributed Ledger Landscape: Who is developing shared, replicated ledgers and why
Earlier today I gave a presentation for Blockchain University hosted at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. It covers the different startups
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A new interview with Epicenter Bitcoin on Distributed Ledgers
A couple weeks ago I was interviewed on Epicenter Bitcoin. Below is the video from that episode. We covered a