A brief update on the shared ledger ecosystem
A year ago to the day I published: “Consensus-as-a-service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned, distributed ledger systems.” […]
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Additional citations, quotes and panels
Following up from the last batch, below are some of the public-facing activities I have been involved with the past
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Settlement Risks Involving Public Blockchains
[Note: this article first appeared on Tabb Forum] Over the past several months there has been a crescendo of pronouncements
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What is the difference between Hyperledger and Hyperledger?
I am frequently asked this question because there is some confusion related to the legacy name and the current branding
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Short interview with the CFA Institute
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The myth of The Right Stuff
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Using just the “rails”
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Five frequently asked questions about permissioned chains
I was recently asked by someone: what are short arguments as to why permissioned blockchains are preferable than public ones
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The Cool Kid at School
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What is the difference between a Bitcoin company and a Blockchain company?
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AT&T is the only tested and secure telecommunication system, the rest are altscams
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What did bitcoin movements look like in 2015?
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AFA Presentation: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and the Future of Financial Services
The slideshow below was first presented at an AFA panel on January 4, 2016 in San Francisco. Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and
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A proxy for users
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More events and articles
The past couple of months I’ve attended a number of events and written a few external articles. Below is a
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Anchor’s aweigh
One comment I have noticed continually re-appear on social media over the last couple months is roughly the following: If
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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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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.