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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »