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Polygon Acquires Mir Protocol in $400M Deal in Order to Bolster ‘Groundbreaking ZK Rollup Tech’

12.12.2021
On December 9, Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic announced that the project has acquired the Ethereum scaling startup Mir in a $400 million deal. The Mir team of cryptographers and engineers are joining Polygon in order to create a “highly-scalable, Ethereum-compatible ZK rollup”...

Coinbase launches open-source cryptography library Kryptology

6.12.2021
The library will aid in building complex cryptographic techniques to match the needs of the bourgeoning DeFi sector

What is Mimblewimble and how does it work?

21.11.2021
Mimblewimble is a spell that literally ties the target's tongue to keep them from exposing information on a given subject. It is well-known among Harry Potter enthusiasts

Celebrating the Seminal Bitcoin White Paper Satoshi Nakamoto Published 13 Years Ago Today

31.10.2021
All around the world cryptocurrency supporters and proponents of blockchain technology are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper. The summary of the inventor’s creation was published on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing List on Halloween 2008, as it gave birth...

Ubisoft Is Getting Into The Blockchain Grift

28.10.2021
At this point, we’re all just holding out hope that our favorite video game franchises aren’t getting into weird crypto shit. Sometimes, it’s a vain hope. In today’s second quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft said it is exploring blockchain for games. Read more

How Dare Neopets Taint My Childhood With NFTs

28.9.2021
The Neopets developers recently revealed on their website that they are creating NFTs for over twenty thousand customized pets, all in partnership with several blockchain companies. So far, the public response from past and present community members has been overwhelmingly negative. Read more

Bitcoin Crackdown Leads To Cheaper Graphics Cards In China

22.6.2021
With graphics cards seeming harder to get than ever, China’s stricter measures against Bitcoin mining have led to lower prices online in the country. Read more

The Many Facts Pointing to Cypherpunk Len Sassaman Being Satoshi Nakamoto

5.3.2021
Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, has always been a mysterious character and a great number of sleuths have made it their mission to discover the inventor’s identity. One particular theory was published this month which attempts to tether the well known and now deceased, Len Sassaman...

What Is Cryptocurrency?

10.2.2021
Cryptocurrency also termed as Digital or Virtual currency is considered as a form of asset and the currency is designed to work as an exchange medium. Crytpocurrency uses strong cryptography to secure the financial transactions. All these cryptocurrencies work on the … Continued The post What...

The Future of Cryptographic Security in the Age of Quantum

6.1.2021
How blockchain technology can thrive in an age of quantum computing

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin White Paper: A 12-Year Old Summary of Robust Unstructured Simplicity

1.11.2020
Cryptocurrency supporters all around the world are celebrating the fact that today is the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, a summary of the invention created by the pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s inventor published the paper on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography...

Did Satoshi choose to publish Bitcoin's whitepaper on Halloween as another Easter egg?

31.10.2020
For all we don't know about Satoshi, we can tell he loved a touch of theatricality

This blockchain only needs 22Kb of data to be verified

19.10.2020
Mina applies zk-SNARKs to Cardano's Ouroboros consensus to achieve scalability and decentralization

One of Hal Finney's lost contributions to Bitcoin Core to be 'resurrected'

28.9.2020
While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent

CIA’s New Research Lab to Study Blockchain

21.9.2020
CIA Labs will give officers an outlet to patent and profit from their tech inventions

Privacy Options Underutilized in Cryptocurrency Usage: Report

4.9.2020
Advances in cryptography have not met with user enthusiasm, suggesting a disconnect between the cryptocurrency community and its cypherpunk ancestors. According to Coin Metrics, transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies zcash (ZEC), monero (XMR), and grin only add up to 6% of bitcoin’s...