Over the past three years, the TrueBit protocol has bootstrapped from a consensus computer to a verification game to a full-fledged computation oracle. A couple weeks ago, Sina Habibian gave a live demo of “TrueBit Lite” over Ethereum’s Rinkeby testnet. With deployable technology now in hand, we approach a long-awaited…

Traditional cloud storage platforms like Dropbox, Sia, Storj, and Maidsafe, either enable users to share data or plan to support such functionality. These applications place users in control of the data they supply to the network. In contrast, a recent flood of cryptocurrency incentives has ushered in a need for…

The fast-changing blockchain landscape has warranted an update to the TrueBit whitepaper. Our new addendum includes security patches, a discussion of the new TrueBit Virtual Machine, and some new use cases. We are grateful to the WebAssembly community for providing us with a production-ready architecture, individuals and organizations who have…

Ethereum has ushered in a remarkable new era of token crowdsales. In a recent blog post, Vitalik Buterin distilled two desirable properties of such distributions. Everyone who wishes can successfully purchase tokens. A fixed amount of currency buys at least some minimum fraction of the total tokens. Unfortunately, as Vitalik…