Fast, Secure, Decentralized. Choose three.

CBDCs v Crypto — The World is Getting Away from Centralization

The unfortunate, bloody and lingering conflict between Russia and Ukraine has revealed a lot of things in the political and financial world, not the least of which is the role and benefits of actual cryptocurrency versus…

Silvermint

Apr 22

Calls from All the Strangest Places

In what can’t be entirely a coincidence, on Monday, April 18 — income tax filing day — DeFi…

Silvermint

Apr 19

Utah Moves into Pole Position — We Talk to the Utah Legislator Behind the Pro-Crypto Push in Utah

We rightfully look at efforts to regulate cryptocurrency with deserved skepticism, but that’s not to say all government action regarding digital currency is…

Silvermint

Apr 6

Twitter, Musk and the Censorship Game

Which Way, Crypto Man?

In a remarkable show of self-reflection, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey had a moment of clarity online just a week ago.

Mike Stay

Mar 31

Introducing Silvermint. Fast, Secure, Decentralized: Choose three. Silvermint is a leaderless, scalable, and secure proof-of-stake blockchain with smart contracts and censorship resistance. Designed for developers, by developers, Silvermint offers lightweight and independent architecture making it easy to adopt incrementally.

In the Mail: Questions about Silvermint

Questions from Jeff Joltes (@DevItBetter on Twitter)

Mike Stay

Mar 31

Tim Curry’s face morphs into Ron Howard’s face.

Church and Curry Types

Two Logicians

Nash Foster

Mar 21

The EVM — Scale or Fail?

Guest post by Michael A. Stay Ph.D, CTO of Pyrofex & the Silvermint Network

The Ethereum foundation has written quite a bit about how they’re going to make the EVM scale and they’ve started building. They’ve deployed the Beacon chain and The Merge is planned…

Nash Foster

Mar 21

Silvermint Whitepaper

Last week, I introduced you to our new project, Silvermint. Quite a number of you asked where they could download our whitepaper. We were excited to start talking about our project, but the whitepaper needed a little bit more work. So, we held onto it until this week because I’m a fussy…

Nash Foster

Mar 9

Introducing: Silvermint

Some of you may be familiar with Pyrofex or with me from projects we’ve worked on in the past. If you are, you might have noticed that we were awfully quiet for the last few years. The pandemic affected everyone differently, but Mike and I used it as an opportunity to quietly get to…