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Why Harvard Research on a Low-Profit Tezos Attack Matters for Proof-of-Stake

A recent academic study says Tezos is threatened by "selfish mining," providing a valid threat model for other live and up-and-coming proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies.That’s the finding from Selfish Behavior in the Tezos Proof-of-Stake Protocol, published last November by then-Harvard researcher and current Google engineering intern Michael Neuder.The paper from Neuder

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The US Quietly Printed $75 Billion out of Thin Air (For the Banks). This Is Why Bitcoin Matters – CCN.com

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York very quietly handed out $75 billion in cash to the banks on Wednesday in a process known as a ‘repurchase operation,’ or repo.  This emergency measure hasn’t been used at scale for a decade, since the last financial crisis. It’s a reminder of the central

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Israel’s Security Matters to Utilize Blockchain for Cannabis Tracking

The Israeli-based company Security Matters is looking to bring cannabis and CBD products into a transparent blockchain environment. Security Matters is well known for its relevance in the supply chain sector.The blockchain-oriented company already has a platform that helps to mark and track seeds and plants from the very beginning,

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