Posts tagged with #Decentralization

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The Second Crypto War: A Private Ethereum

In 1988, Tim May predicted encrypted systems would 'alter completely the nature of government regulation.' In 1993, Eric Hughes declared 'Cypherpunks write code.' Thirty years later, developers are going to prison for doing exactly that. But something is shifting—Vitalik is building privacy wallets, Naval is calling Zcash 'insurance against Bitcoin,' and a team of physicists just launched the first fully decentralized private blockchain. The cypherpunks are fighting back.

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes
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Substrate on Trial: The Bittensor Panic and the Hunt for Scapegoats

A forensic analysis of the Bittensor network incident, examining why the blame game misses the bigger picture about decentralization and sovereign infrastructure.

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes