Posts from August 2017

Emin Gün Sirer

Hacker and professor at Cornell, with interests that span distributed systems, OSes and networking. Current projects include HyperDex, OpenReplica and the Nexus OS. more...

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Projects

• AVA
• Falcon
• Teechan
• Vaults
• Bitcoin-NG

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• Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
• Libra: Succinct Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Optimal Prover Computation
• Liberating web data using DECO, a privacy-preserving oracle protocol
• Ostraka: Blockchain Scaling by Node Sharding
• On Stablecoins and Beauty Pageants
• Decentralize Your Secrets with CHURP
• The Old Fee Market is Broken, Long Live the New Fee Market
• One File for the Price of Three: Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks
• On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs
• Choose-Your-Own-Security-Disclosure-Adventure
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• Introducing Weaver
• How to Disincentivize Large Bitcoin Mining Pools
• How A Mining Monopoly Can Attack Bitcoin
• What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox
• Bitcoin is Broken
• Stack Ranking Is Not The Cause of Microsoft's Problems
• How the Snowden Saga Will End
• What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
• Broken By Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
• Introducing Virtual Notary
• The Principled Documentation Manifesto
• Introducing HyperDex Warp: ACID Transactions for NoSQL

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