Archive of stories published by Mitar’s point

Proof of luck consensus protocol and Luckychain blockchain

Proof of work consensus protocol used in modern cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum consumes a lot of energy and requires participants to use their CPUs for mining instead of other useful work. But exactly this cost is why…


Towards layered re-decentralized web

Re-decentralizing web and Internet-based technologies is gaining momentum. Just recently there was a Decentralized Web Summit where many projects were represented. But while people contemplate importance of decentralized technologies and are building alternatives…


Reactive queries in PostgreSQL

I am a big fan of the application architecture promoted by Meteor. I like declarative programming. You describe what you want and not how and the system does the rest. Reactive programming is very similar. You define how outputs should be computed from inputs, but when is…


Peer-to-Peer voting scheme

The following was a class report done together with Valkyrie Savage where we compared my idea for voting described in the previous post with others similar ideas we found around. This idea is envisioned as a backend for the massive online collaborative decision making system…

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