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I'm worried about the effect of high ETH fees on DeFi. A quick thread on what can go wrong. Recall that much of DeFi involves collateralized lending, where the borrowers

Blockchain fallacy of the day: "block time equals time to finality."It sounds stupid when I put it like that, but lots of people try to brag about fast blocks. Literally

Klaytn, the South Korean blockchain project, had an outage that lasted 13 hours.There are two bits of crucial information here that most mainstream coverage missed and will continue to miss.Klaytn

Data indicates that 6 EOS Block Producers are really just one team https://cointelegraph.com/news/eos-block-producer-claims-centralized-misconduct-on-the-network via @cointelegraph This is a simple Sybil attack. And the whole episode shows three seri

The US just charged @virgilgr with trying to help North Korea evade sanctions. Maximum sentence is 20 years.https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-united-states-citizen-assisting-north-korea I'm no lawyer, but

There's a lot of confusion about identity and anonymity, even in cypherpunk circles. So this is a thread about good uses of anonymity versus bad. First of all, anonymity is