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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsddVkR-MSs] on Bitcoin-style chains. Basically it's a way »
How Bancor Works
A lot of people don't quite get how Bancor works, which isn't surprising because their whitepaper [https://www.bancor.network/static/bancor_ »
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' »
Ethereum Credit Cards
I just read The Divide [https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00EBRUB02] by Matt Taibbi. Among many other horrors, he describes in chapter eight the collections process »