Spoiler for the impatient In Chainlink 2.0, the “solution” to the problem that trusted oracles can collude and feed incorrect oracle answers into the blockchain is to have another group of even more trusted oracles be responsible for punishing the first group. …

Background The Stock-to-Flow model (S2F), invented and popularized in 2019 by PlanB in the piece “Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity”, is one of the most popular price theories for bitcoin, suggesting that the S2F of bitcoin is what drives its price. The popularity and credence of the model was earned mainly…

This is the fifth part in an article series by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on privacy and cryptocurrency, funded by the Zcash Foundation. To read about the purpose of this article series, see our introductory piece “Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?”. This series is written…

Three months ago, I tweeted out this image with the following caption: When someone says “Proof-of-Stake is less wasteful” The tweet was meant as a gag, but it spurred one of the most insightful conversations I’ve ever had on the platform. …

This is the fourth part in an article series by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on privacy and cryptocurrency, funded by the Zcash Foundation. To read about the purpose of this article series, see our introductory piece “Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?”. The last part in…

So, Hedera Hashgraph is launching on September 16. It’s a 3rd generation DLT and it can do 10,000+ TPS! Amazing, right? Yeah! Or wait, I forgot something. Because I hold huge bags of bitcoin (or was it BCH? or Qtum? I lose track) that I’m apparently for some magical reason…

This is the third part in an article series by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on privacy and cryptocurrency, funded by the Zcash Foundation. To read about the purpose of this article series, see our introductory piece “Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?”. The next part in…

The social media company’s move into cryptocurrency takes advantage of regulatory loopholes — Facebook is very knowingly exploiting a very specific gap in regulations and technology made possible by the cryptocurrency industry that will allow their planned “Libra” cryptocurrency to flow into the black market economy while still being compliant with traditional financial entities’ compliance policies.

This is the second part in an article series by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on privacy and cryptocurrency, funded by the Zcash Foundation. To read about the purpose of this article series, see our introductory piece “Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?”. The next part in…