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biophil (66)in #bitshares • 6 years ago
BitShares Worker Proposal to Fund University Research
Greetings, old friends in the Steem community! For those who don't remember me, I'm Dr. Philip N. Brown, professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado…
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biophil (66)in #research • 7 years ago
What is Blockchain Architecture?
One of the central research themes in my study of theory for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, or blockchains and cryptocurrencies and the like) is that of Ledger…
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biophil (66)in #theory • 7 years ago
What is Theory?
In the past months, I have been thinking casually about working to establish an overarching theory of distributed ledger technology (DLT). This is the basic term I use to…
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biophil (66)in #research • 7 years ago
You may (almost) call me Doctor
Happy news! As some of you know, I've been hard at work on my PhD for the past 5-6 years, and last week all that work paid off. On May 10th, 2018, I undertook the age-old…
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biophil (66)in #iota • 7 years ago
Questions for the IOTA Foundation
I've been researching IOTA lately, and I've developed a list of 3 core questions that I'd like to have answered about IOTA. IOTA is a cryptocurrency that was founded…
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biophil (66)in #viewly • 7 years ago
Anyone out there still watching Viewly?
I've been slightly out of the loop for a while on this one, as my last two months were essentially swallowed by my (successful!) job search. In the time since I last paid…
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biophil (66)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
What are the most influential cryptocurrency/blockchain whitepapers of all time?
I'm interested in studying cryptocurrencies and decentralized database systems in a more rigorous, analytical capacity. Toward that end, I've decided to spend the next several…
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biophil (66)in #ardor • 7 years ago
Is Ardor really all that great?
It's been nearly a month since the Ardor blockchain launched, and I'm sad to say that I just don't get it. Years ago I was very interested in Nxt, which was one of the…
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biophil (66)in #space • 7 years ago
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Static Fire Successful!
Yesterday, SpaceX stuck their uber-rocket Falcon Heavy on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and turned it on! They had some massive clamps on it to make sure it…
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biophil (66)in #pocket • 7 years ago
Pocket confirmer bots: bug fixed; please upgrade to latest code now!
(If you are not running a confirmer bot, feel free to ignore this message! Keep using Pocket as you always have!) Today Pocket gave me a chance to prove that I'm still around…
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biophil (66)in #california • 7 years ago
Our land of fire and mud
I live in a very strange place. We call it California's "Central Coast," but geographically it's really more southern than central. It's about a 2 hours' drive north of Los…
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biophil (66)in #ico • 7 years ago
How ICOs inflate the cryptocurrency market cap
As I was writing my piece on cryptocurrency pricing, I realized that ICOs have a surprising and peculiar effect on the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies. Let's…
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biophil (66)in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
How should we think about today's cryptocurrency prices?
Lately, I've been having conversation after conversation with friends and family about whether people should buy into cryptocurrency right now. There's such a wild sense in the…
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biophil (66)in #space • 7 years ago
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Coming Soon!
Attention space and rocketry fans! SpaceX, Elon Musk's now-famous rocket company, finally appears ready to test-launch its new massive rocket, the Falcon Heavy. This rocket is…
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biophil (66)in #sirius • 7 years ago
New crypto tip: Sirius, a smart chain being given away free!
Quick note here about a new coin distribution happening over on bitcointalk: It's a "smart chain" (blockchain system with scripting, a la Ethereum or EOS). It's a fork of…
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biophil (66)in #witness • 7 years ago
How are the witnesses performing? Or, how to be careful with time-series statistics
Last week, I wrote this article about trying to catch witnesses doing bad things. In it, I analyzed all the blocks produced by the top-producing witnesses over a long range…
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biophil (66)in #steem • 7 years ago
How are the witnesses performing? Let's look at some statistics!
A couple days ago I wrote a post about various ways in which witnesses could abuse (use?) their positions to extract more profit from the system than they're typically meant…
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biophil (66)in #lunyr • 7 years ago
Finally published my first article on Lunyr! Quick update on status of Private Alpha
My article is completely and deliberately terrible, but I did sneak in a reference to Pocket . Here's a screenshot from the Lunyr Private Alpha: The alpha platform is…
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biophil (66)in #witnesses • 7 years ago
Who will witness the witnesses?
The incredible speeds and low costs of using Steem are due to the fact that it uses a consensus mechanism called Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS), which was invented by Dan…
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biophil (66)in #fire • 7 years ago
Report from apocalyptic Southern California
Image courtesy of Ventura Country Fire Department PIO For those who haven't heard, there's a massive devastating wildfire burning right now in Ventura Country, California. I…
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