The Low Cost of 51% Attacks

A web page shows that many crypto currencies lack protection against 51% attacks. For example to double spend in Dash, one needs to pay only 14K$ per hour. To double spend in bitcoin private, 1000$ will suffice. And course benefits of double spending can easily outweigh the costs. In addition some of the higher numbers are questionable. There …

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How to Recover Your Coins Lost due to ViaCoin Multisig Bug

In November 2017, users have lost 300 M$ in Ethereum due to a bug in Parity wallet multisig features. At this moment the history repeats with ViaCoin: There is a serious bug in Windows ViaCoin 2.8.3. wallet found here and available since April 2017. As a world premiere, here is the solution! How to Recover Coins …

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Bitcoin Crazy Ride Hits Wall Street

It is a big success for bitcoin and coincides with an incredible price rally where bitcoin has accomplished in 2017. In first days of 2017, bitcoin was worth 1000$. 5 months later in May it was at 2000$, 3 months later in August it was at 4000$, and after another 3 months in November it was at …

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Storm is Brewing Over Bitcoin Future

If you read recent media reports about future of bitcoin, you wonder what is going on. For sure it is NOT clear which software or which blockchain we will be calling the “true” or “real” bitcoin in the future. Here is a selection of citations, all very recent, and all about the fork expected to …

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ICOs – The Good and the Ugly

In the recent crazy wave of ICOs we hear every day that investors should be warned and there are lots of scams or that it is unlikely that ICOs can deliver. So the question is how do you tell apart a “good ICO” from a bad one? It is a difficult question, but let us …

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Bitcoin Network Recovery – $40 Billion Of Self-Inflicted Damage

After 1 month of acute crisis the bitcoin network is finally operating more or less normally. Imagine that you went to a station in rush hour and it took you 1 month to get home due tube or rail network jamming. This is exactly what happened to bitcoin in the last 2-3 months, and which is …

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