Alternative Coins & Systems

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of the internet has functioned for decades. It was originally constructed using the statements by [...]

I have looked at a number of papers where the authors are investigating or starting to question the concept of [...]

Simplified payment verification (SPV) was first discussed in the Bitcoin white paper (Wright, 2008), and was taken up by other [...]

De Filippi et al. (2022) created a seemingly well-argued academic research paper focused on the means by which distributed blockchain-based [...]

Measuring the distance between nodes has been considered complex (Chen et al., 2020) and liable to error or listed computational [...]

The concept of a ‘rollback’ attack is referenced when it comes to blockchain solutions and attacks or changes to the [...]

The ability to scale a blockchain is related to the problem of scaling a distributed database. For example, the original [...]

Lessig (2000) promoted an early concept adopted by cypherpunk computer coders and anarchists: “Code is law.” Such a mentality has [...]

The recent collapse of FTX demonstrates the need for oversight within financial accounting systems. Unfortunately, the term decentralisation has been [...]

Liu and Camp (2006) demonstrate the common error made by many trained in computer science but not economics. In their [...]

The Bitcoin white paper (Wright, 2008, p. 1) references a system that provides “small casual payments,” allowing for the dissemination [...]

Rajasekaran et al. (2022) demonstrate the problem when researchers focus on papers published within the last 3 to 5 years, [...]