Tag:smart contract

News: NiceHash, credit cards cut off cryptos, Ethereum predictable “random” numbers, deanonymising Tor, Bail Bloc

With nice writeups of my book and related books.
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News: NiceHash pay out, smart contracts, Australian banks, Coinbase vs Ripple, Meltdown vs cryptos, Dungeon World

“Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we’re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror.”
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Why you can’t cash out pt 3: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme! It just works like one

“A fish bowl with no food in it that fish keep jumping into because they heard it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. And for the meanest fish, it is.” Why most Bitcoin on-paper “wealth” can never be realised.
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Smart contracts, Heise Technology Review, Oktober 2017: full interview in English

I did an interview for Heise Technology Review, Oktober 2017. It’s been a few months since it was published, so here are my original unedited answers in English.
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News: Tether from cryptos, $10,000, Tesla charging station mining, CME Bitcoin futures, Ethereum dinner, book news

Plus: the worst bootleg version I’ve ever seen of any book, and it was of mine.
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The latest Ethereum Parity wallet disaster, play by play

Why cryptocurrency skeptics were overdosing on popcorn yesterday afternoon. “I accidentally the whole ICO.”
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Could someone launch a DDOS attack in a smart contract? (Probably not.)

A question from a reader: Could someone launch a DDOS attack in a smart contract?
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