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"All blockchains and cryptocurrencies require consensus, or agreement on the state of the ledger between all parties in the system. However, achieving consensus is non-trivial. "

advanced Blockchain Protocols

"Private torrent communities are markets, and the paper “Economics of BitTorrent Communities” does a great job exploring this with data"

advanced Cryptoeconomics

"The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is established to coordinate at the international level the work of national financial authorities and international standard-setting bodies in order to develop and promote the implementation of effective regulatory, supervisory and other financial sector policies."

advanced Cryptoeconomics

"In the following post, I will try to clear up some of the confusion around staking by creating a framework for classification and discussing how delegation works in “pure” PoS implementations."

advanced Protocols

"In this paper, we explore how China threatens the security, stability, and viability of Bitcoin through its dominant position in the Bitcoin ecosystem, political and economic control over domestic activity, and control over its domestic Internet infrastructure."

advanced Bitcoin Security

"Following are some of the most common techniques for creating upgradable smart contracts."

advanced Code Smart Contracts

"In this paper, we examine the extent to which anonymity is achieved in the deployed version of Zcash."

advanced Altcoins Privacy Whitepaper

"The below is a deep dive into the technology powering instant settlement at sparkswap, a new way to trade cryptocurrencies without depositing assets on an exchange. It is a technical article, and it is recommended that readers be familiar with the Lightning Network and Atomic Cross-chain Swaps."

advanced Protocols

"Being heralded as a game changer for the Web and performant, cross- browser execution, WebAssembly is a standard being developed by the W3C group for an efficient, lightweight instruction set. "

advanced Protocols

"In the next few paragraphs, I will dive deeper into the DNS architecture and compare it to its blockchain based equivalent such as Ethereum Naming Service and Handshake."

advanced Decentralization

"In-depth Explanation of What EVM is and How EVM Works."

advanced Code Ethereum Protocols

"In this article, I will be explaining a foundational architecture that I advise to many of the businesses in the space due to its simplicity, modularity, and platform agnosticism."

advanced Code DAPPs

"EVM provides such a powerful turing-complete computation so that ethereum can run a general program, also known as smart contract. Plasma EVM is a new version of Plasma that can execute EVM in plasma chain, and its clients can be based on current ethereum clients (go-ethereum, py-evm, parity)."

advanced Code Protocols

What do you need to start as an ethereum web developer?

advanced Code Ethereum

"I’ve decided to compile a short guide to ease the way of future programmers learning Ethereum smart contract development. I’ve divided the guide in two sections: how to get started building smart contracts in Ethereum, and a quick note on smart contract security."

advanced Code Ethereum Smart Contracts

Whitepaper.

advanced Privacy Whitepaper

"This post is dense and covers various topics: linking to various articles, ideas & code"

advanced Protocols

The highly technical article that explains the weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design. The author describes technical aspects, costs and remedies for the potential attack.

advanced Security