Friday, June 29, 2018

Cryptocurrencies Have Limits

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The Economic Limits Of Bitcoin And The Blockchain by Eric Budish is an important analysis of the economics of two kinds of "51% attack...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Rate limits

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Andrew Marantz writes in Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet : [On 2017's] April Fools’, instead of a parody announcement...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Software Heritage Archive Goes Live

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June 7 th was a big day for software preservation; it was the formal opening of Software Heritage's archive . Congratulations to Robert...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

The Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language

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There are currently a number of attempts to deploy a cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network, including MaidSafe, FileCoin, Sia a...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

No-one could have predicted ...

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... the threats posed by information technology to civil liberties. But my friend Robert G. Kennedy III came close. In April 1989 he wrote ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

The Island of Misfit Toys

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The Berkman Center's Johnathan Zittrain has a New York Times editorial entitled From Westworld to Best World for the Internet of Things ...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Cryptographers on Blockchains: Part 2 (updated)

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Back in April I wrote Cryptographers on Blockchains ; they weren't enthusiastic. It is time for some more of the same, so follow me belo...
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