Category: Theory

Let’s start with honest praise of Incentive Attacks on Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies. As a paper it is hard to fault: the authors...

Are psychiatrists happy because their job is to treat depression? Do only thin people offer weight-loss advice? Or how about a...

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

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...

On Thursday, February 7 Richard and I had the good fortune of presenting Saito to a select group of people we...

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

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...

This post is about where Saito is in terms of blockchain scaling, the technical challenges that we face and our roadmap...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the scalability trilemma lately, and wanted to write this blog post because after grappling with...

Imagine we want to scale Ethereum without plasma chains or chains-of-chains. Here is one strategy: Start by creating a Saito module...

In various discussions over the last two months, we’ve noticed that some people have trouble wrapping their head around Saito’s consensus...

Blockchain Myths #2 – A Blockchain is a Permanent Ledger In our second post in this series, we address the idea...