Posts from May 2017

Announcing The Town Crier Service

ethereum town crier virtual notary May 15, 2017 at 10:01 AM Yan Ji, Ari Juels, and Fan Zhang
Town Crier is an oracle service for smart contracts.

Levels of Techie Enlightenment

research meta May 04, 2017 at 10:01 AM Emin Gün Sirer
This post makes the case that people, new to an area and eager to become an expert, go through a well-defined series of stages.

Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

routing bgp bitcoin May 01, 2017 at 10:48 AM Maria Apostolaki, Aviv Zohar, and Laurent Vanbever
Cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to attacks targeting the network routing layer. In this guest post, Apostolaki, Zohar and Vanbever show that BGP attacks are back, and this time, they have a high value target.