Money, blockchains, and social scalability

Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

This essay assumes familiarity with Nick Szabo’s essay on Social Scalability, Vitalik Buterin’s essay on Weak Subjectivity, and Haseeb Qureshi’s essay on Why Decentralization Isn’t As Important As You Think.

Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

For the last hundred years, individuals have worked for firms, and, by historical standards, large ones. That many of us live in suburbs and drive our cars…

By Gwern Branwen, May 27, 2011

Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

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Blockchain is a data structure for proving that certain events happened in a specific order

This paper is by Frank McSherry, Michael Isard, Derek G. Murray and appeared in HotOS 2015. The authors are all listed as unaffiliated beca...