Posts from July 2017

Bitcoin's Impending Accounting Disaster

bitcoin bitfinex bcc fork July 31, 2017 at 04:20 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Shenanigans at Bitfinex are poised to mess up their accounting, confuse the price of BCC, and potentially bankrupt the already-bankrupt exchange.

An In-Depth Look at the Parity Multisig Bug

ethereum parity wallet security July 22, 2017 at 09:47 AM Lorenz Breidenbach, Phil Daian, Ari Juels, and Emin Gün Sirer
We do a deep-dive into Parity's multisig bug.

Parity's Wallet Bug is not Alone

ethereum bitgo parity wallet security July 20, 2017 at 05:18 AM Emin Gün Sirer
The bug in the Parity multisig wallet that caused the loss of $30M has the same root cause as a bug in the BitGo multisig wallet that I found a year ago.

Atomically Trading with Roger: Gambling on the success of a hardfork

bitcoin loaded roger atomic trade gamble unlimited July 11, 2017 at 07:20 PM Patrick McCorry, Ethan Heilman, and Andrew Miller
A new atomic trade protocol to allow two parties to publicly pledge support for different forks in the event a blockchain splits into two.

Twitter, Reddit and 4chan: The Web's Fake News Centipede

fake news influence web web centipede alternative news mainstream news July 11, 2017 at 07:38 AM Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, and Jeremy Blackburn
Twitter, Reddit and 4chan: The Web Centipede.