Hacking, Distributed

A Bad Argument for High Bitcoin Fees

bitcoin blocksize December 16, 2015 at 03:30 PM Emin Gün Sirer

I try to lay to rest a bad way to account for Bitcoin network costs and a flawed argument for exorbitantly high fees.

How To Spot Satoshi

bitcoin satoshi not satoshi December 10, 2015 at 11:43 AM Emin Gün Sirer

The press is doing a fresh manhunt for Satoshi again. This post focuses on one of the effective techniques to recognize Satoshi if he were to walk among us.

How to Compress Bitcoin

bitcoin blocksize December 02, 2015 at 02:13 PM Emin Gün Sirer

Peter Tschipper has been looking into compressing the Bitcoin messages on the wire using generic compressors. In this post, I discuss why generic compressors will not work well with Bitcoin, make the case for a custom compressor, and suggest that we run a community challenge to develop the best compressor.

A Suggestion For How to Proceed with the Bitcoin Block Size Debate

bitcoin blocksize bitcoin-ng November 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM Emin Gün Sirer

A modest suggestion on how to proceed with the block size debate, wherein we suggest explicitly defining the criteria for evaluating block size increase proposals.

Bitcoin-NG: Unshackling Blockchains

bitcoin blocksize bitcoin-ng November 09, 2015 at 12:08 PM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer

We review some of the feedback we received on Bitcoin-NG and discuss why every new permission-less ledger would be better off with NG compared to the alternatives.

Six Degrees of Alan Turing

weaver hyperdex research trends October 19, 2015 at 09:40 AM Maofan (Ted) Yin, Hao Chen, Ayush Dubey, and Emin Gün Sirer

A neat little application, built on Weaver and HyperDex, that allows people to visualize the graph of co-authorship in computer science research papers. Find out how connected you are to Turing.