The disappearance of a journalist has developed into a global business reckoning for Saudi Arabia’s aging oil empire.

Decred is handing control of its $21 million treasury and all aspects of the protocol, from consensus through staffing, over to token holders.

When $100m USD become available for trading on Coinbase no one knows. Because Coinbase isn’t stupid and they’re not letting everyone know when they credit a customer. But when Bitfinex does it the entire world knows. That’s a weakness and competitors will…

A call for embracing the currency competition

Data mining is the process of looking at large banks of information to generate new information. Intuitively, you might think that data “mining” refers to the extraction of new data, but this isn’t the case; instead, data mining is about extrapolating patterns…

Politeia marks a major inflection point for Decred, imparting a major increase in stakeholder sovereignty over matters of treasury and…

Coda (since renamed - Mina Protocol) is the first cryptocurrency protocol with a constant-sized blockchain. Coda compresses the entire blockchain into a tiny snapshot the size of a few tweets.

That means that no matter how many transactions are performed…

SNARKs are amazing cryptographic primitives, but their performance can constrain their potential applications. In this talk, Deepthi Kumar of O(1) Labs introduces a method to parallelize and compose zk-SNARK proofs for dramatically increased throughput.

The killing took seven minutes.