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08.12.2022
Dark Mode Toggle Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment 2022 Dec 06 See all posts Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment The GPT chatbot has been all the rage the last few days. Along wi
06.12.2022
Dark Mode Toggle What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me 2022 Dec 05 See all posts What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me Special thanks to Matt Huang, Santi Siri and Tina Zhen for feedback and
30.11.2022
Dark Mode Toggle STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds 2018 Jul 21 See all posts STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Dra
Dark Mode Toggle Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion 2017 Mar 14 See all posts Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion One of the important arguments in the blockchain space is that of whether hard forks or
Dark Mode Toggle Understanding PLONK 2019 Sep 22 See all posts Understanding PLONK Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review V
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero 2016 Dec 10 See all posts [Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/ @VitalikBu
Dark Mode Toggle Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad 2018 Mar 28 See all posts Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use c
Dark Mode Toggle A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus 2018 Aug 07 See all posts A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We've heard for a long time that it's possible to ach
Dark Mode Toggle A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis 2017 Dec 14 See all posts A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 a
Dark Mode Toggle Analyzing Token Sale Models 2017 Jun 09 See all posts Analyzing Token Sale Models Note: I mention the names of various projects below only to compare and contrast their token sale mechanisms; this should N
Dark Mode Toggle STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day 2017 Nov 22 See all posts STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for
Dark Mode Toggle On Free Speech 2019 Apr 16 See all posts On Free Speech "A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement." - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many in
Dark Mode Toggle A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination 2017 Mar 11 See all posts A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination Updated 2018-07-28. See end note. The following is an interesting
Dark Mode Toggle Notes on Blockchain Governance 2017 Dec 17 See all posts Notes on Blockchain Governance In which I argue that "tightly coupled" on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of "informal governance" as prac
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy 2016 Dec 29 See all posts [Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/ @VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-desig
Dark Mode Toggle Über Kollusion 2000 Jan 01 See all posts Über Kollusion Besonderer Dank geht an Glen Weyl, Phil Daian und Jinglan Wang für das Gegenlesen dieses Artikels, und an inlak16 für die Übersetzung. In den letzt
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings 2017 Jan 14 See all posts [Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/ @VitalikButerin/exploring-elliptic-curve
Dark Mode Toggle On Radical Markets 2018 Apr 20 See all posts On Radical Markets Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl's new book, Radical Markets , which could be best d
Dark Mode Toggle The Triangle of Harm 2017 Jul 16 See all posts The Triangle of Harm The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: If there was one diagram th
Dark Mode Toggle Zmowa 2000 Jan 01 See all posts Zmowa Specjalne podziękowania dla Glena Weyla, Phila Daiana i Jinglana Wanga za recenzję, i dla Dawida Kurdziela i bichvan2408 za tłumaczenie W ciągu ostatnich kilku lat w
Dark Mode Toggle A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits 2017 Jul 27 See all posts A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits Looks like it's blockchain split season again . For back
Dark Mode Toggle Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term 2018 Aug 26 See all posts Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term See update 2018-08-29 One of th
Dark Mode Toggle On Path Independence 2017 Jun 22 See all posts On Path Independence Suppose that someone walks up to you and starts exclaiming to you that he thinks he has figured out how to create a source of unlimited f
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood 2017 Feb 01 See all posts [Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/ @VitalikButerin/zk-snarks-under-the-hood-b33151a013f6
Dark Mode Toggle The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols 2019 Aug 28 See all posts The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling -
Dark Mode Toggle Fast Fourier Transforms 2019 May 12 See all posts Fast Fourier Transforms Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesti
Dark Mode Toggle A CBC Casper Tutorial 2018 Dec 05 See all posts A CBC Casper Tutorial Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir, Aditya Asgaonkar, Ameen Soleimani and Jinglan Wang for review In order to help more people understand
Dark Mode Toggle Sharding FAQ 2017 Dec 31 See all posts Sharding FAQ Currently, in all blockchain protocols each node stores the entire state (account balances, contract code and storage, etc.) and processes all transactio
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting 2018 Nov 25 See all posts [Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting This is a mirror of the post at https://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2018-11-26-4m9b8b/ written
Dark Mode Toggle [Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy 2019 Apr 01 See all posts [Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com
Dark Mode Toggle Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding 2019 Jun 12 See all posts Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is shar
Dark Mode Toggle On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations 2017 Oct 17 See all posts On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the "network
Dark Mode Toggle Control as Liability 2019 May 09 See all posts Control as Liability The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When
Dark Mode Toggle A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol 2017 Sep 14 See all posts A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereu
Dark Mode Toggle On Collusion 2019 Apr 03 See all posts On Collusion Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately
Dark Mode Toggle Na colusão 2000 Jan 01 See all posts Na colusão Agradecimentos especiais a Glen Weyl, Phil Daian e Jinglan Wang para revisão, e Jeff Prestes para tradução Nos últimos anos, tem havido um interesse cresce
Dark Mode Toggle STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials 2017 Nov 09 See all posts STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of
Dark Mode Toggle Proof of Stake FAQ 2017 Dec 31 See all posts Proof of Stake FAQ Contents What is Proof of Stake What are the benefits of proof of stake as opposed to proof of work? How does proof of stake fit into
Dark Mode Toggle Situazioni di collusione 2000 Jan 01 See all posts Situazioni di collusione Un ringraziamento speciale a Glen Weyl, Phil Daian e Jinglan Wang per la revisione, e Hacktar e matteopey per la traduzione . N
Dark Mode Toggle Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems 2017 May 08 See all posts Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems Recently, there was a small spat between the Core and Unlimited factions of t