Blockchains

• Will The Real Blockchain Stack Please Stand Up?
• Sidechains: Why These Researchers Think They Solved a Key Piece of the Puzzle
• Crackdown Fails to Stop China’s Crypto Gold Rush
• The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work
• The GPU Price Surge
• A signaling theory model of cryptocurrency issuance and value
• Paper summary: Bitcoin-NG -- A scalable Blockchain Protocol
  • still one of my favorite designs, excited to see how it works out in Waves

Programming

• Scala FP: how good an idea now?
  • must read for Scala programmers
• In Defense of OOFP

Machine Learning

• The Policy of Truth

Papers

• Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale
• CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines without logs