Economic implications of big block Bitcoin
The current innovation of ASIC miners to make hashing as powerful as possible while efficient as possible is not accounting for a scenario of fee income rising.
The current innovation of ASIC miners to make hashing as powerful as possible while efficient as possible is not accounting for a scenario of fee income rising.
It’s unclear whether Musk sincerely desires to improve Twitter to preserve ‘democracy’ or whether he simply believes that buying a major stake will allow him to tweet whatever he likes without fear that he’ll be struck off the platform.
In this article, Jerry Chan explores each of the three strategies in scaling Ethereum and why none will achieve the intended goal, as none addressed the lack of scalability of the layer 1 blockchain.
Turing completeness does not require an infinite tape, and it was not an infinite tape that Turing mentioned in his paper; it was an unbounded system.
The co-founder of ‘crypto’ token/commodity Ripple wants BTC to shift to a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism, apparently because he believes the hobbled BTC tech is still not hobbled enough.
The source of funds is basically the question of who you are, where your funds come from, and why you have them—it is identity but focused on wealth.
The original Bitcoin was created to support property rights under the framework of the rule of law and increase productivity with unbounded scalability and low costs. BTC is the opposite.
Many industries are trying to find ways to turn Bitcoin into something else. They want to make digital gold, but Bitcoin isn’t digital gold.
The false belief of the BTC community hold lies in thinking that if you mix the inputs, the now “untraceable outputs” will no longer be seized or be outside the area law enforcement can cover.
Numerous arguments abound on scaling blockchain-based systems like Bitcoin, but according to author Dr. Craig Wright, the scale or grade represents the transaction volume that the system can handle.
Blockchain enthusiasts use to tell the world to HODL every time the price of digital assets dropped or plummeted, but now, it seems like the HODL strategy has been retired.
The only purpose of running a 'node' that doesn't create blocks is to monitor and receive transactions quickly and validate transactions receipt faster. There is no benefit to the network overall.