Richard and I are just back from a roughly two-week trip to California. Richard wrote earlier about our experiences with the Stanford Blockchain Conference. Rather than rehash his opinions, I thought I’d share some broader thoughts on how Silicon Valley…
On Thursday, February 7 Richard and I had the good fortune of presenting Saito to a select group of people we now know in San Francisco. It was a smart crowd that was constantly thinking ahead of where we were…
Vitalik Buterin just wrote an important paper. It matters because it addresses the fundamental economic nature of attacks on blockchains, and specifically that the cheapest way to attack a POW or POS blockchain is to undermine its incentive structure. Attackers…
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Anyone who knows Saito knows that we’re obsessed with economic attacks. From inception to our TechCrunch panel last Tuesday, we’ve stressed that vulnerabilities in blockchain are almost always economic at heart. Given this, the most fascinating part of the Bitcoin Hash War for us…
This post is about where Saito is in terms of blockchain scaling, the technical challenges that we face and our roadmap for processing even larger amounts of data moving forward. If you’re technically-minded and interested in on-chain blockchain scaling, please get…
Adrian somehow materialized a media appearance for us on the China Global Television Network (CGTN is the rebranded CCTV-9) as part of their reporting on the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin Whitepaper.* Here are some photos of the event, courtesy…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the scalability trilemma lately, and wanted to write this blog post because after grappling with it for several days it seems pretty clear to me that the idea is at least a little bit…
Imagine we want to scale Ethereum without plasma chains or chains-of-chains. Here is one strategy: Start by creating a Saito module that selects nodes through some algorithm. All nodes running this module listen on the Saito network for transactions that…
I attended the Ethereum Industry Summit in Hong Kong yesterday. Left the event with mixed feelings and a few new friends, but three random thoughts to start: The calibre of discussion was high compared to other public crypto events and…