Micropayments: Where They At?
It may seem strange to people both inside and outside the cryptocurrency space that micropayments have not taken off as a major use case….
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BTC++, Consensus, and the Elusive Web3
On a recent Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, I left a talk between a human rights activist and an Afghan entrepreneur revolving around using…
The Bitcoin Extended Public Key: Explaining the Mystery
Scanning, paths, hardened keys, derived addresses…these are just a smattering of the ‘fun’ nomenclature that awaits you if you dip your toe in the…
History of Cryptocurrency, Part 2
BC = Before Crypto For many decades prior to the emergence of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, computer scientists sought a way to make digital…
Rigging RANDAO: Defeating The Crypto World’s Favorite “Trustless” Random Number Generator
If you’ve been paying a lot of attention to the blockchain ecosystem, the algorithm may look familiar. In crypto circles, it is called RANDAO, and it has been hyped off-and-on for a few years now.