The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing — Nick Szabo, Unenumerated

A primer on the blockchain written in Dec. 2014 by the creator of bit gold, a framework for a crypto currency with striking similarities to Bitcoin and that preceded it, as pointed out in this recent New York Times article speculating on the true identity of…

Yesterday, there was quite a good piece in the CityAM by Jerry Norton from CGI. He discussed uses of the block chain in banking. He probably means shared replicated ledgers (“SRLs”) but that term has not permeated…

Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies (pdf) — Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann, eprint.iacr.org

Nick Szabo recommends this scholarly article surveying cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin’s influence on cryptocurrencies.

Breaking the House: How Primedice was exploited for $1M in Bitcoin — @stunna on Medium

This is the story of how we lost around $1 million worth of bitcoin to a hacker who exploited our online casino’s RNG system. This happened last year, but we’ve decided to share our experience for transparency and so that others can learn from our mistakes.

Bitcoin Is Unsustainable — Christopher Malmo, motherboard.vice.com

Computer cooling firm Allied Control estimates the total power consumption of the Bitcoin network at 250 to 500 Megawatts. Looking at the total hashrate, which is the number of calculations the network can perform per second, and applying a generous miner…