[ad_1] Statistically, there is an increased risk of failure with private equity ownership. PE portfolio companies are about 10 times as likely to go bankrupt as non-PE-owned companies. Granted, one out of five companies going bankrupt doesn’t portend certain failure, but it is a startling statistic. The rejoinder, of course, […]
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[ad_1] ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased […]
[ad_1] Statistically, there is an increased risk of failure with private equity ownership. PE portfolio companies are about 10 times as likely to go bankrupt as non-PE-owned companies. Granted, one out of five companies going bankrupt doesn’t portend certain failure, but it is a startling statistic. The rejoinder, of course, […]
[ad_1] An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision – whether voting, random number collection, or other use cases where getting information from multiple parties to increase decentralization is highly desirable, but also where there is a strong risk […]
[ad_1] It’s often claimed that small-cap stocks are more interest-rate sensitive than their large-cap counterparts because of their reliance on outside financing. This seems plausible. But what do the data say? In this blog post, I explore the relationship between small- and large-cap stocks and interest-rate changes using the Stocks, […]
[ad_1] Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++ and Python can in principle display this behavior if used insecurely; only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port […]
[ad_1] “We are probably in the second or third inning.” That’s Andrew Lo’s status report on the progress of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and machine learning applications in finance. Lo, a professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Ajay Agrawal of the University of Toronto’s […]
[ad_1] Unfortunately we were not able to secure the venue for devcon one in London on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). As a consequence we are postponing the event until further notice. Please do not make travel plans at this time. Updates will be forthcoming on the devcon one website […]
[ad_1] The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) came on the scene in the 1990s as a way for investors to track expected risk in the market going forward. The Chicago Board Options Exchange’s VIX does something unique in that it uses 30-day options on the S&P 500 Index to gage traders’ […]
[ad_1] State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block that contains […]