Peer-to-Peer Lending: Better for Borrowers. Better for Lenders. Terrible for JP Morgan Chase?
The IPO of Lending Club (LC) has drawn a lot of attention to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending, also known as marketplace lending.
Peer-to-Peer Lending: Better for Borrowers. Better for Lenders. Terrible for JP Morgan Chase?
The IPO of Lending Club (LC) has drawn a lot of attention to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending, also known as marketplace lending.
Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update IV
Time for another update! So quite a bit has happened following ÐΞVcon-0, our internal developer’s conference. The conference itself was a great time to get all the developers together and really get to know each other, dissipate a lot of information (b…
Monsanto: Organic Growth in Digital Soil – Big Data in Agriculture
Monsanto is not the only company eyeing organic growth in digital soil, but it is one of the first movers. It seems well positioned to succeed.
Monsanto: Organic Growth in Digital Soil – Big Data in Agriculture
Monsanto is not the only company eyeing organic growth in digital soil, but it is one of the first movers. It seems well positioned to succeed.
ÐΞVcon-0 Recap
Day 1 – Monday 24th Nov – ÐΞV: Mission and Processes The first day of ÐΞVcon-0 kicked off early at 7am with the Ethereum UK communications team arriving at the venue (Ethereum Dev UG’s workspace in Kreuzberg, Berlin) to set up the 4K high quality recor…
Curing Diabetes with Stem Cells
Curing Diabetes: New research out of Harvard University’s Stem Cell Institute may have cracked the code to curing diabetes.
Curing Diabetes with Stem Cells
Curing Diabetes: New research out of Harvard University’s Stem Cell Institute may have cracked the code to curing diabetes.
From inside Ethereum ÐΞVhub Berlin
Yesterday was the first proper day of ÐΞVhub Berlin being open, following the first Ethereum internal developers’ symposium ÐΞVcon-0. I want to post a few images to let you gauge the mood here. Henning, Marek, Viktor and Felix hacking on the couch …
Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits, including efficiency, a larger security margin and future-proof immunity to hardware centralization co…
On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Currency and Platform Network Effects
One of the latest ideas that has come to recently achieve some prominence in parts of the Bitcoin community is the line of thinking that has been described by both myself and others as “Bitcoin dominance maximalism” or just “Bitcoin maximalism” for sho…
Mirai vs. Tesla: Toyota's Challenge with Fuel Cells
Tesla’s electric Model S and Toyota’s fuel cell Mirai qualify as “zero emission” vehicles; however, when accelerating, their similarities begin to diverge.
Mirai vs. Tesla: Toyota’s Challenge with Fuel Cells
Tesla’s electric Model S and Toyota’s fuel cell Mirai qualify as “zero emission” vehicles; however, when accelerating, their similarities begin to diverge.
Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update III
I’m Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum and, along with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse) of the Ethereum blockcha…
Tesla Battery System Costs Will Drop 40% by 2020
Tesla claims that the economies of scale associated with its Gigafactory will drive the cost of tesla battery pack systems down more than 30% by 2017.
Tesla Battery System Costs Will Drop 40% by 2020
Tesla claims that the economies of scale associated with its Gigafactory will drive the cost of tesla battery pack systems down more than 30% by 2017.
The Hidden Cost of Fuel Cell Vehicles
In contrast to electric vehicles (EVs), infrastructure demands will prove to be cost prohibitive for fuel cell vehicle adoption.
The Hidden Cost of Fuel Cell Vehicles
In contrast to electric vehicles (EVs), infrastructure demands will prove to be cost prohibitive for fuel cell vehicle adoption.
Scalability, Part 3: On Metacoin History and Multichain
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for much of the thinking behind multi-chain cryptoeconomic paradigms First off, a history lesson. In October 2013, when I was visiting Israel as part of my trip around the Bitcoin world, I came to know the core teams behi…
The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency
Special thanks to Robert Sams for the development of Seignorage Shares and insights regarding how to correctly value volatile coins in multi-currency systems Note: we are not planning on adding price stabilization to ether; our philosophy has always b…