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Ehemaliger FBI Agent beschreibt, wie er über 3.500 BitCoin Transaktionen verfolgen konnte

Alles lässt sich irgendwie hacken: Fingerabdruck Scanner, Autos, oder auch BitCoins. Deren vermeintlicher Vorteil – die Anonymität durch Blockchain – lässt sich aushebeln, sofern man die BitCoin Adresse des jeweiligen Nutzers kennt. Aber das genau ist aus meiner Sicht der Punkt. Natürlich kennen die beteiligten Parteien bei Transaktionen die Adresse des jeweils anderen, aber für […]

Meet Chris Kanaan, VP of Engineering at Ripple Labs

Chris Kanaan joined Ripple Labs two months ago to become the company’s VP of Engineering. The Yelp alum and Stanford grad is working closely with Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas to oversee the engineering department, making sure teams are aligned with each other as well as the company’s product needs and vision. With headcount at […]

The P + epsilon Attack

Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses One of the more interesting surprises in cryptoeconomics in recent weeks came from an attack on SchellingCoin conceived by Andrew Miller earlier this month. Although it has always been understood that […]

The Fed’s Strategy for Improving the U.S. Payment System

The Federal Reserve Bank has released its highly anticipated strategy report for improving the U.S. payment system. The report follows calls for industry feedback in late 2013—which Ripple Labs participated in (letter, response)—during which the Federal Reserve acknowledged the payment system’s contribution to not only the country’s financial stability but also U.S. economic growth. The […]

Superrationality and DAOs

Warning: this post contains crazy ideas. Myself describing a crazy idea should NOT be construed as implying that (i) I am certain that the idea is correct/viable, (ii) I have an even >50% probability estimate that the idea is correct/viable, or that (iii) “Ethereum” endorses any of this in any way. One of the common […]

Ripple: Benefits for Regulators and Payment Systems

Continuing our dialogue with regulators about efforts to build more efficient, safer payment systems, Ripple Labs recently detailed the benefits and implications of a distributed network to the UK’s new Payment System Regulator (PSR). In most cases, payments are included under a general framework for financial regulations. Yet the UK has taken a unique approach […]