Vlad Zamfir

Some thoughts on blockchain governance

Following Simon’s example, I’m going to post a twitter thread to medium (with maybe some additional comments!).

I got a question about the structure of blockchain governance. I don’t tweet about what it would mean for governance to be…

Dealing with failure in cryptocurrency

There are many ways that a blockchain can fail. It’s always good to think about what failure looks like because it lets us see 1) how bad it might be, and 2) how it’s possible to recover from failure and 3) how can failure be prevented.

Simple model of an internal PoW attacker

In a blog post published yesterday, I mentioned that only a naive attacker would attack PoW “from the outside”. I since put together a simple model of the “internal attacker” I was thinking about.