Bitcoin as the Base layer

Many people have seen IPv6 as a simple addressing extension to the existing Internet and see few changes to the way we secure systems. These people cannot be further from the truth. IPv6 will...

Posted on 2018-11-01

Property Law in the Age of Bitcoin

Property (as defined in legal terms) as is associated with servers, routers, and information systems in general is known in the law as consisting of “chattels”. Servers are chattels. The data are...

Posted on 2018-10-31

A Bitcoin Smart Risk Contract

In economic terms, we want to assign liability such that the optimal damage-mitigation strategy occurs. The victim of a breach will mitigate their damages where no damages for breach apply in...

Posted on 2018-10-30

Burning and why it matters that it is stopped

First, we need to note that Bitcoin is an economic system and in economics, incentives and intent matter. The loss of an address is not the same as intentionally destroying keys. For a start, the...

Posted on 2018-10-27

The Bitcoin Future

Right now, disk storage doubles each year in capacity. CPU power doubles each 18 months. Fibre speeds and capacity double each 9 months.   This is exponential growth in a wide scale. This is the...

Posted on 2018-10-26

Neural Network Threshold Oracles

The main advantage to a system’s engineering approach is the ease with which it can be automated. Various inputs and formula can become inputs into a neural network algorithm (Fig. 1). Equations...

Posted on 2018-10-26

Hearsay in the Blockchain world

In law, when presenting evidence to a court, there exists a rule on the exclusion of hearsay as evidence.   Before admitting evidence, a court will generally ensure that it is both the relevant to...

Posted on 2018-10-24