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Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence
https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/, posted 4 Mar by peter in business cryptocurrency
Three practitioners including erstwhile blockchain enthusiast John Burg, a Fellow at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), looked at instances of the distributed crypto ledger being used in a wide range of situations by NGOs, contractors and agencies. But they drew a complete blank.
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GNU Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserve
https://taler.net/, posted 2016 by peter in cryptocurrency finance free opensource
Taler is a new electronic payment system under development at Inria. Today, this website only presents the advantages our system is expected to provide. We expect to make the payment system available to the general public in 2016.
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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.61sas2ksb, posted 2016 by peter in cryptocurrency finance opinion toread
Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people. Worse still, the network is on the brink of technical collapse. The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there’s no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.
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What is Ethereum?
etherscripter.com/what_is_ethereum.html, posted 2016 by peter in cryptocurrency reference toread
So these are big problems with traditional law. Agreements are ambiguous. And enforcement is hard.
Ethereum solves both these problems. It does this with the marriage of two special ingredients: a digital currency, and a complete programming language. Let's look at both.
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a-r-d/Bellman-Form-BTCe-Arbitrager
https://github.com/a-r-d/Bellman-Form-BTCe-Arbitrager, posted 2015 by peter in automation cryptocurrency opensource trading
This is a simple Bellman-Ford bot that uses the negative cycle detection feature of the algorithm to find favorable currency trades to make in forex markets (in this case we are targeting bitcoin/fiat/scryptcoin markets on btc-e and other exchanges).
Typically the trades the bot finds are less than 0.5% profit, will take 3 steps, and must be filled quickly to be profitable.
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GetDotBit.com Offers Free Domain Names Powered By Namecoin - CryptoCoinsNews
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/getdotbit-com-offers-free-domain-names-powered-namecoin/, posted 2015 by peter in cryptocurrency domain free
GetDotBit.com is a domain name platform for registering .bit (dot-bit) URLs that recently launched. Users can now register a domain name for free. Additional names cost one dollar each.
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Zero Click Bitcoin Micropayments | ChallengePost
challengepost.com/software/zero-click-bitcoin-micropayments, posted 2015 by peter in business cryptocurrency startup
Zero Click is a dead easy payment protocol that will allow users to pay for resources online in the simplest way using Bitcoin. We came up with the idea when we noticed that the HTTP 402 payment required status code was unimplemented. We used Bitcoin because it allows us to transfer money with no registration and no lengthy approval for the person receiving the money.
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Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v5.pdf, posted 2014 by peter in cryptocurrency finance inpdf science security
The Bitcoin cryptocurrency records its transactions in a public log called the blockchain. Its security rests critically on the distributed protocol that maintains the blockchain, run by participants called miners. Conventional wisdom asserts that the protocol is incentive-compatible and secure against colluding minority groups, i.e., it incentivizes miners to follow the protocol as prescribed.
We show that the Bitcoin protocol is not incentive-compatible. We present an attack with which colluding miners obtain a revenue larger than their fair share. This attack can have signi cant consequences for Bitcoin: Rational miners will prefer to join the sel sh miners, and the colluding group will increase in size until it becomes a majority. At this point, the Bitcoin system ceases to be a decentralized currency.
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