This month saw our Eames TESTNET create its 21,601st block. The original genesis block was then dropped from the chain before creating the next block. To be valid, the 21,602nd block had to include the ‘rebroadcastable’ transactions from the original…
Curious about the next big thing in the blockchain space? If you haven’t experienced on-chain gaming yet, be sure to visit the Saito Arcade and try out one of our first three on-chain games: Chess, WordBlocks or Twilight Struggle. Although…
Today we are delighted to release the first version of the Saito Game Engine (SaGE). Chess, WordBlocks and Twilight Struggle are available to start with, and are listed on our Saito Arcade. If you have thoughts on what we should…
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…
Stanford feels like the promised land to anyone used to Chinese academia. The campus opens with a palm-lined drive that leads to manicured lawns and stately sandstone buildings. You can breathe the air. There are Rodin sculptures scattered through campus.…
Over the New Year, a test Saito node we call Marathon created its millionth block. In doing so over 10 million transactions were validated and bundled into blocks at a rate of about 1 block every 5 seconds with an…
Node Worthy 28: Blockchain in 2019 (live panel discussion) It was a pleasure to be invited to talk on the last Technode Tech in China panel for the year. You can listen to the panel discussion on the Technode Node…
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…
December has been a hugely exciting and busy time for Saito. Not only has this month seen huge progress from the core development team on our forthcoming Eames Testnet, which will run on our first software release theoretically capable of…