Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on November 25, 2014

Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits, including efficiency, a larger security margin and future-proof immunity to hardware centralization concerns, proof of stake algorithms tend to be substantially more complex than proof of work-based... [Read More]

On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Currency and Platform Network Effects

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on November 19, 2014

One of the latest ideas that has come to recently achieve some prominence in parts of the Bitcoin community is the line of thinking that has been described by both myself and others as "Bitcoin dominance maximalism" or just "Bitcoin maximalism" for short - essentially, the idea that an environment... [Read More]

Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update III

Posted by Gavin Wood on November 17, 2014

I’m Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum and, along with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse) of the Ethereum blockchain. This is a small update to let you all... [Read More]
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