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Censorship in private BFT blockchains

Off-chain recourse is your enemy.

Consortium chains as clearinghouses

Picture a scenario where a consortium blockchain is used to replace a regulated, independent clearinghouse, allowing…

How (not) to invest in crypto index funds

Exploring the benefits — and risks.

DISCLAIMER: This article is not financial advice.

Spotlight: Crypto20

Fast, Quantum Safe Additively Homomorphic Encryption

Introduction

This article presents a means for executing private computation of addition operations on an untrusted server whilst protecting from a harvest-then-decrypt post-quantum attack.

Regulating ICOs will cause more harm

In point form.

1. Regulated ICOs are only open to identified, sophisticated investors (SIs)
2. Unsophisticated and/or anonymous investors (UAIs) must wait until the token becomes freely tradeable to participate

Attack Vectors in P2P Reputation Systems

TL;DR

P2P reptuation systems:

• Are slow to propagate awareness of bad actors
• Leak a lot of private information that works against individuals and against the network

Defining Identity Privacy

Privacy in the context of a claims-based identity system or standard has multiple definitions, each of which can be expressed as a requirement:

1. Data privacy: The contents of a claim MUST NOT be visible except to those strictly requiring this information

Taking Web of Trust to the mass market

A pure web of trust implementation will fail in a mass market setting because establishing a trustworthy identity requires effort, and an identity that is effortless to establish is a magnet for fraud.

The PGP Web of Trust