Five Red Flags that Preceded Neo & Bee's Collapse

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A quick summary of the red flags that preceded the demise of Neo & Bee, the latest Bitcoin startup from Cyprus.

A Just-So Story About What May Have Happened At Mt.Gox

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A story that explains every public utterance by a man who wrote his own SSH server in PHP.

What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox

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There are lots of theories about what may have happened at Mt. Gox. This post examines what may not have happened, and how to avoid that which did happen.

Copysets and Chainsets: A Better Way to Replicate

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This article discusses a new replica placement technique that reduces the probability of data loss.

HyperDex 1.1: Backups, Macs and Graphs

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HyperDex 1.1! This release includes a robust backup manager and a preview of the in-development network management console.

How to Detect Selfish Miners

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How to detect when someone in the network is engaged in selfish mining

Back That NoSQL Up

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HyperDex gets a fast, flexible, incremental backup manager.

BTC Guild Gets Lucky

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BTC Guild released a number of blocks in quick succession, making some people worry that they are selfish mining. We discuss the evidence.

Replicant: Replicated State Machines Made Easy

replicant state machines replication hyperdex December 26, 2013 at 12:42 PM Robert Escriva and Emin Gün Sirer
In this article, we explore why Zookeeper and Raft provide the wrong abstraction for building distributed systems and provide an object-oriented alternative for developing fault-tolerant programs in C/C++.

Next-Gen NoSQL Comes of Age: HyperDex 1.0

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HyperDex 1.0! A new milestone for HyperDex.