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IANAL but I believe the legal theory is they stole proprietary information from Coinbase (information about an upcoming listing) and used it for personal profit. The "victims" in t…

Almost all crypto lending (at least the defi/smart-contract variety) is collateralized lending. There's still a sort of "counterparty" risk, in that the management has to operate p…

Analyses like this just take the energy cost of each block of transactions and divide it by the amount of transactions in the block. If the number of transactions in a block double…

Played around with bitmessage for a bit and worked on an alternative for a bit. Here's some thoughts: 1. Like most gossip networks, it uses tcp. Since most consumer devices won't a…

I'm aware, I'm just hesitant due to the counter party/smart contract security risk. In a few years when some of these platforms have more of a track record, I'll probably start usi…

Spent a lot of time/money this election cycle betting on the spread between Predictit and 538. I did act more conservatively by only making a bet when it made sense given all 3 ver…

Why? There's no need to use some game-theoretic machine for getting data when you can just get it direct from the source.

You're comparing two scenarios, one in which you know all the facts, and one in which you don't. In the dice toss scenario, we know everything relevant. In the election scenario, w…

Could this just be a result of low sampling by the author? If you reduce a sample to only include some tiny edge case, the resulting data points are going to be weird in random way…

Not really possible cause we don't know how much carbon PoW generates. You could naively just assume they generates the average amount (which is what some analysts have done), but …

The S&P500 is not an index of the entire economy. It's heavily weighted towards the tech sector. The hardest hit businesses (retail, restaurants, service) were small parts of the S…

Sorry, who is "we"? And got a writeup anywhere?

Whats missing is proof of delivery, and thats the most important thing. I'm not just paying AWS to store my files, I'm paying them to deliver my files. Maybe this could work as an …

You wrote that tokens in the safe harbor will need less registration and disclosure, but no comment on what that registration or disclosure will entail, or why it is less than suff…

This article doesn't even bother to explain the proposal

In politics, there's a huge incentive for insiders to appear to be a kingmaker. Names like Shadow and ACRONYM play into that stereotype of a behind the scenes puppet master, that p…

dApp is kind of a flexible word, but the typical unifying feature is that the user has custody of a private key they use for signing transactions on a distributed ledger. Most dApp…

For an order book you have two options: 1. An on chain order book. But saving state on chain is expensive 2. An off chain order book. With an off chain order book, you have to hash…

For those unaware, Uniswap is a decentralized exchange without an order book. Rather than matching orders to buy and sell, it has a liquidity pool. As users buy/sell from the pool,…

My guess is the keyword "logo" in their brand name was a big part of their SEO ranking

I'm not sure why a blockchain is needed for this. Can't they just have an API where certain posts are "flagged" and hidden in the official UI? If you want to opt-out, you simply us…