Aug 22, 2022The Case for Social Slashing“You gotta slash the hell outta them” Do you like crypto-philosophy? Do you enjoy battling with ethical conundrums and challenging yourself to find the right answer, when all choices are hard? If so, then you’re in luck. The ethical dilemma of social slashing in Proof-of-Stake presents one of the most…Ethereum16 min readEthereum16 min read
May 1, 2021What’s Wrong With the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper? (For Simpletons)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. …Chain Link11 min readChain Link11 min read
Jul 1, 2020A list of the greatest blows to the S2F modelBackground 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…Bitcoin3 min readBitcoin3 min read
Published in Human Rights Foundation (HRF)·Mar 19, 2020Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part V: Bisq, RuneScape and stories from buying bitcoin anonymouslyThis 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?”. …Bitcoin16 min readBitcoin16 min read
Dec 23, 2019Proof-of-Stake is less wastefulThree 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. Since the discussion, my framework for thinking around this…Bitcoin11 min readBitcoin11 min read
Published in Human Rights Foundation (HRF)·Nov 20, 2019Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part IV: Stablecoins— Blacklists and TraceabilityThis 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…Blockchain19 min readBlockchain19 min read
Sep 2, 2019Hedera Hashgraph — Time for some FUDSo, 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…Bitcoin17 min readBitcoin17 min read
Published in Human Rights Foundation (HRF)·Jul 22, 2019Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part III: Should You Use a Privacy Coin?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…Monero19 min readMonero19 min read
Published in OneZero·Jun 20, 2019Member-onlyFacebook’s Libra MasterplanThe 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.Bitcoin10 min readBitcoin10 min read
Published in Human Rights Foundation (HRF)·May 9, 2019Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part II: Bitcoin WalletsThis 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…Bitcoin21 min readBitcoin21 min read
