Comment Policy #1

bitcoin selfish-mining philosophy meta November 06, 2013 at 10:30 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Policy regarding comments.

Altruism Among Capitalists?

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 05, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
If the health of your cryptocurrency requires Gordon Gekko to make sacrifices, it is doomed.

Some Frequently Asked Questions on Selfish Mining

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 05, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
Some clarifications and answers to frequently asked questions about the selfish mining attack on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Is Broken

bitcoin security broken selfish-mining November 04, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
We discovered an attack against the Bitcoin mining protocol that can have a significant impact on the Bitcoin community.

NSA Transparency Isn't What It's Cracked Up To Be

nsa transparency surveillance privacy September 24, 2013 at 04:10 PM Emin Gün Sirer
The computer industry insistence on more transparency from the NSA is wrong-headed and detracts from the effort for better privacy guarantees.

DNS Fails the NYTimes

dns security August 27, 2013 at 08:50 PM Emin Gün Sirer
DNS continues to be a weak, fragile system.

NSA Pickup Lines

privacy surveillance nsa creepy silly August 27, 2013 at 02:58 PM Emin Gün Sirer
NSA uses its considerable intelligence apparatus for spying on its loved ones.

Stack Ranking is Not the Cause of Microsoft's Troubles

microsoft August 24, 2013 at 07:40 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Empires fall for many reasons, their internal ranking procedures are typically not the main culprit.

A Big Dud on Big Data

big data definition August 18, 2013 at 04:43 PM Emin Gün Sirer
The NYTimes asks if Big Data is a big dud, but frames the issue in the worst possible way.

Cost of Surveilling the Cloud

snowden privacy surveillance nsa August 09, 2013 at 02:43 PM Emin Gün Sirer
There is now an official estimate on the costs of broadly spying on the entire cloud.