Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks

The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past twenty years, we have seen a growing centralization in…

Outer Space: A New Investment Frontier?

SpaceX and Skybox | As the barriers to entry diminish, companies like SpaceX and Skybox continue to innovate the industrial world. Cheap Space Exploration.

Outer Space: A New Investment Frontier?

SpaceX and Skybox | As the barriers to entry diminish, companies like SpaceX and Skybox continue to innovate the industrial world. Cheap Space Exploration.

Is Social Media Use Approaching Saturation?

Social media users are running out. A primary driver of the past decade’s growth is diminishing. Social Media companies will have to widen their scope.

The Issuance Model in Ethereum

Ether (ETH), the cryptofuel that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform, will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the block mining process. This rate is 0.3 times the total amount of ETH that will be purchased in the pre-sa…

Pyethereum and Serpent Programming Guide

The content of this tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older PoC4 implementations of AlethZero (C++) and Ethereal (Go) Over the last few weeks, we have made a large number of changes to the…

SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed

One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired a reputation as a highly risky and destabilizing device with the sole function of enrichin…

The Question of Mining

There are a lot of interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that are in the works, which will hopefully improve the power of the system, add further features such as light-client friendliness and a higher degree of extensibility, and make Ethereum …