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...

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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...

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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...

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The Transient Blockchain

In an attempt to make some of the work that we do more accessible, David has put together a six minute...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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On Discouragement Attacks

Vitalik Buterin just wrote an important paper. It matters because it addresses the fundamental economic nature of attacks on blockchains, and...

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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...

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