Incentive Attacks on Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies
Let’s start with honest praise of Incentive Attacks on Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies. As a paper it is hard to fault: the authors...
On Blockchain Scaling and Collective Action Problems
Are psychiatrists happy because their job is to treat depression? Do only thin people offer weight-loss advice? Or how about a...
CasperLabs—Bullish on Proof-of-Stake
In this episode of The Saito Social we talk with Mrinal Manohar and Steven Nerayoff from Adaptive Holdings — parent company...
The Transient Blockchain
In an attempt to make some of the work that we do more accessible, David has put together a six minute...
Blockchain 2019: everyone wants to eat, no-one wants to hunt
In most blockchains the peer-to-peer network does the heavy-lifting: giving data to lite-clients, collecting fees in return, and sharing those fee-paying...
Cortex — Neural Networks on the Blockchain
In our inaugural episode of the Saito Social, Richard and David sit down with Amy Chen from the Cortex project. We...
Playing games on the Saito Blockchain
Curious about the next big thing in the blockchain space? If you haven’t experienced on-chain gaming yet, be sure to visit...
SAGE: The Saito Blockchain Game Engine
Today we are delighted to release the first version of the Saito Game Engine (SaGE). Chess, WordBlocks and Twilight Struggle are...
Journey to the West: Blockchain in America
Richard and I are just back from a roughly two-week trip to California. Richard wrote earlier about our experiences with the...
Starfish Mission: are small blocks really secure?
On Thursday, February 7 Richard and I had the good fortune of presenting Saito to a select group of people we...
On Discouragement Attacks
Vitalik Buterin just wrote an important paper. It matters because it addresses the fundamental economic nature of attacks on blockchains, and...
The Ver Attack: The Biggest Vulnerability in Bitcoin?
Anyone who knows Saito knows that we’re obsessed with economic attacks. From inception to our TechCrunch panel last Tuesday, we’ve stressed that vulnerabilities in blockchain...