[ad_1] URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. This is due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a fairly low gasprice but which requires nodes to read state information […]
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[ad_1] Asset Allocation and Private Markets: A Guide to Investing with Private Equity, Private Debt, and Private Real Assets. 2021. Cyril Demaria, Maurice Pedergnana, Rémy He, Roger Rissi, and Sarah Debrand. John Wiley & Sons. Private market (PM) investing, according to the authors of Asset Allocation and Private Markets, entails […]
[ad_1] Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to ~20-60 seconds to validate due to the ~50,000 disk fetches needed to process the transaction. The result of this was a ~2-3x […]
[ad_1] The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) says that active equity management is a waste of time. Because stock prices incorporate all relevant information, it is not possible to consistently beat the market, according to EMH true believers. That’s because EMH is based on the concept of the wisdom of crowds. […]
[ad_1] During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have been very crafty in locating vulnerabilities in the client implementations as well as the protocol specification. While the recent patches have led to an overall increased resiliency in the […]
[ad_1] Last month, the US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), heading warnings from the American Banking Association about “unacceptable risks and costs to the US financial system.” While I don’t dismiss concerns raised by the American Banking […]
[ad_1] The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. As a user, what do I need to do? Download the latest version of […]
[ad_1] “We are living in a Big Data World and no single analyst or team of analysts can capture all the information on their positions.” — Dan Joldzic, CFA Big data, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing (NLP). For several years now, we’ve heard how these technologies will […]
[ad_1] Mist leaks some low level APIs, which Dapps could use to gain access to the computer’s file system and read/delete files. This would only affect you if you navigate to an untrusted Dapp that knows about these vulnerabilities and specifically tries to attack users. Upgrading Mist is highly recommended to prevent […]
[ad_1] If you are wringing your hands over large-cap stocks due to high market concentration and lofty valuations, allocating to small-cap stocks may give you some piece of mind. Beyond concentration and valuation considerations, there are several good reasons why this is a good time to consider adding small caps […]
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