Spam protection with probabilistic payments and cheap doublespending protection
A somewhat overlooked way to scale small transfers is probabilistic payments. To pay you ten cents, I can give you a ticket with a 1% chance »
Safe instant transactions on today's Ethereum
Recently I came across a proposal for safe zero-confirmation transactions on Bitcoin-style chains.Basically it's a way to post a bond, such that a doublespend results »
How Bancor Works
A lot of people don't quite get how Bancor works, which isn't surprising because their whitepaper (pdf) doesn't explain it very well. Last year I spent »
A Donation Fund for Parity Wallets
Everybody's up in arms about Parity's proposal to fork the whole blockchain so they get back the money they dropped. Let's say for the sake of »
Ethereum Credit Cards
I just read The Divide by Matt Taibbi. Among many other horrors, he describes in chapter eight the collections process on delinquent credit cards, focusing in »