Compromise is not about losing. It is about deciding that the other person has just as much right to be happy with the end result as you do. A number of notable things happened last week on the ETC community call. First of all the community chose to reject ProgPoW…

This is a Chinese translation of my talk given at the 2019 ETC Summit in Vancouver. Thank you ETCC! Video of talk is at bottom, source: https://github.com/etcconsortium/ETCSummit/blob/master/ETC%20Summit%202019%20the%20second%20day%20agenda%20(October%204).pdf

Here is a question: Imagine you have three Ethereum miners, and a group of users broadcasting transactions. Miner A can do 400 megahashs a second (MH/S) and has a latency of .1 seconds to the the users, Miner B can do 700 MH/S and has a latency of 3 seconds…

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Since publishing ECIP-1049 (here) as a response to the 51% attack I have received quite a bit of input and questions. I have also opened up a pull request to multi-geth to create Astor (here), an Ethereum testnet that will use Keccak256 as its proof of work method. If you…

On 2019–01–05, Ethereum Classic (ETC) was 51% attacked. What this means is that attackers sent over 40,000 ETC to an exchange, traded it for Bitcoin, withdrew that Bitcoin, and then released a chain with more accumulated hashpower that gave them back the 40k ETC. This double-spend will forever live on…

DISCLAIMER: Perform this at your own risk. This article is solely for academic purposes and the purpose is to help you better understand how Bitcoin/forks work. This tutorial will show you how to split BCH from BSV, so that you can send one to an exchange without worrying about losing…

THIS ARTICLE IS SOLELY AN ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET. THIS IS NOT TRADING ADVICE OR INVESTMENT ADVICE. I OWN A SMALL PORTION OF P3D AND P3C THAT I PURCHASED WHILE WRITING THIS ARTICLE It’s been a little over five months since I last wrote about Proof of Weak Hands (P3D)…

One of the many criticisms of the usefulness of smart contracts is known as the Oracle Problem. Plainly put, because a smart contract has no knowledge of reality it has to rely on a truth source, aka “an oracle” for it to receive external data. The “problem” is that while…