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Virgil Griffith

Research Scientist @ Ethereum

Virgil Griffith
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Virgil Griffith
Oct 12, 2017

Ether is more halal than Bitcoin

I’ve recently been learning about financial infrastructure, and I was browsing the extra requirements in Islamic finance. This led me to the requirements an Islamic currency must satisfy. In answering this question, I saw an article discussing whether Bitcoin is Sharia…

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Virgil Griffith
Oct 7, 2017

Changing the Ether symbol from Ξ to ♦

The Ether currency symbol is currently Ξ, however, almost no one uses it. This is a proposal for a more pleasing glyph.

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Virgil Griffith
Jun 25, 2017

The Ethereum World Computer

Ethereum is the deterministic World Computer in the sky. Ethereum allows you to pay a dime to run a program inside of a “bulletproof glass box”. The bulletproof glassbox has two lovely properties:

  1. It’s bullet-proof. It is very, very, very hard to disrupt…
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