Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so poses large scalability challenges that arguably puts the ability to trustlessly use blockchains […]
Daily Archives: July 21, 2024
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“Be still indebted to somebody or other, that there may be somebody always to pray for you, [. . .] fearing, if fortune should deal crossly with you, that it might be his chance to come short of being paid by you.” — François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III […]
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. For the past six years, people have been searching to try to find those elusive applications of blockchain technology that could finally break out into the mainstream. For cryptocurrency, the […]
21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change. 2021. William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg, CFA. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Responsible investing, sustainable investing, impact investing, social investing, ethical investing, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing — labels abound for the space in which investors add nonfinancial considerations to the […]
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