Penguin: Potentially Fatal Blockchain Protocols

Op-Ed: The Potentially Fatal Flaw of Open-Source Blockchain Protocols Erik Kuebler Bitcoin Magazine If society truly becomes open-source, the only factors that will keep protocols defensible in the long term are an exceptionally talented team, a loyal community and significant network effect.

Dave Room: Blockchain and the Synaptic Post-Google Internet

Blockchain and the Synaptic Post Google Internet   Many are heralding blockchain as an innovation that will bring about as much or more change than the Internet. Most emerging non-currency applications of blockchain are for existing or planned coins for banking and payments, supply chain management, insurance, ride sharing, charity, voting, government, healthcare, energy management, …

Yoda: Public Blockchain Projects Lack Proper Funding, Ethereum Co-founder [Vitalik Buterin] Has Ideas

Public Blockchain Projects Lack Proper Funding, Ethereum Co-founder Has Ideas Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has recently been an outspoken critic of the lack of funding for public open-source projects. In a day and age where ICOs are raising more money than traditional venture capitalism, a need has arisen for alternative funding models for …

Berto Jongman: Hashgraph, Quantum, & Crypto

Blockchain Just Became Obsolete. The Future is Hashgraph Swirlds is a software platform that has developed the hashgraph consensus algorithm: an entirely new distributed ledger technology that is much more cost-effective (no proof-of-work), 50,000 times the speed, safer (Byzantine), more efficient (no stale blocks) and mathematically fairer than the blockchain. How China Is Using Quantum …

Stephen E. Arnold: Dark Web Notebook — Core Reference

Stephen E Arnold: Dark Web Use Expected to Increase Author predicts filtering and other restrictions on the open Internet will push more users toward secret encrypted platforms Despite stepped-up efforts by federal and local law enforcement agencies, the Dark Web and the contraband markets that thrive there will continue to grow in the coming years. …