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23 Jul 2020 8 minute read 1 comment Ryan Osborne
We live in a rapidly changing world that seems to get less and less stable every day. The institutions that have been the cornerstone to our societies are no longer trusted. The systems that have upheld them have proven to be rotten to the core. Neve...
12 Jul 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Kluma
What is zero-knowledge proof? Zero-disclosure evidence is a cryptographic protocol that allows one side (the prover) to confirm the truth of the statement to the other side (the verifier), without disclosing any additional information about it (neit...
23 Jun 2020 8 minute read 1 comment Kluma
What is cryptography? Cryptography is the science of methods for ensuring authentication, data integrity and confidentiality. When and how did cryptography originate and develop? Cryptography as a text protection technique arose along with...
23 Jun 2020 7 minute read 0 comments Kluma
What is darknet? Darknet is a hidden network on the Internet, the connections in which are established only between trusted peers using non-standard ports and unique custom data transfer protocols. Quite often, the term “darknet” is used intercha...
11 Jun 2020 4 minute read 0 comments TNT
Since the creation of Bitcoin and the idea of it being decentralized and trust-less by using mathematics in form of cryptography, and clever ideas, we are still yet to see a truly decentralized and trust-less exchanges, that are liquid enough for eve...
9 Jun 2020 7 minute read 0 comments fractalbit
Try to remember the first time you saw a computer. Just a regular computer based on a binary set of rules, that we all use now. What did you feel back then? It was like a whole new world hidden inside it. The whole new universe was captivating you wi...
26 Apr 2020 12 minute read 4 comments JungleOnion
Knowledge is power and throughout history knowledge has been acquired, transferred, protected, destroyed, misunderstood, but most importantly, used by every human and civilization in this planet. Discovering knowledge is innovative and a synonymous o...
11 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Interdax
In the second installment of our series on BIPs 340–342, we’ll see how Schnorr lays the foundation for Taproot and explain the benefits of BIP 341.Read part 1 ‘How will Schnorr Signatures Benefit Bitcoin?’ here: https://medium.com/interdax/how-will-s...
5 Feb 2020 10 minute read 5 comments Creepto
TL;DR: There's a way to prove your identity without going through an long KYC process with every service provider. Note: In this post, I'll do my best avoid diving too deep into cryptography, math, and actual research. Where possible, I'll mention re...
13 Jan 2020 2 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
BLAKE3 is a newly announced cryptographic hash function (9th of January, 2020) and a SHA-3 finalist designed by a team of cryptographers among which Zooko Wilcox from Zcash (the others being Jack O'Connor, Samuel Neves and Jean-Philippe Aumasson...
