A couple days ago Elon Musk declared war on the Bitcoin community. Although he announced that his company Tesla will stop accepting BTC as means of payment for its cars simultaneously he is promoting another electricity-consuming PoW blockchain: Dogecoin. In parallel Elon’s SpaceX is blowing massive amounts of CO2 originating…

Dear æternity crypto community, It has been both exciting and stressful weeks since the æternity campaign ended. A lot of work has been done to make æternity a reality and the best is yet to come. Scaling an organization is tricky. Most startups fail because of this reason. It is…

We just reached our self imposed cap. The aeternity contribution campaign will end in 6 more hours from the time the cap got hit. To check the current time, please have a look at our contribution wallet. Thank you for your incredible support. A recap of the campaign, a contribution sheet as well as a script to verify the contribution sheet will be released shortly. Afterwards our ERC20 token contract will be deployed, first on testnet, then on mainnet.

Development Contributions for the æternity Blockchain We are pleased to announce the details on how to contribute to the development of æternity blockchain! In the contribution process, AE tokens will be created and distributed to the contributors. In order to achieve the highest possible security, transparency and simplicity, æternity uses…

BitAlias, a naming system on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain and my last public project, is on hold now. If someone likes to take it over, please contact me. It had some traction, and it is a valid project, even though Bitcoin was not designed for such an application. As I am now with æternity, I can’t maintain it anymore, but happy to share all the code I wrote so far, as well as consult on the strategy.

a new scalable blockchain endeavour — I just mined the first block of a new blockchain, the æternity testnet blockchain (Github). We have the 8th birthday of Bitcoin. And it is the first days of year 2017. Last year, in 2016, suddenly everybody started talking about blockchain. …

First, I ignored the block-size debate. It was always clear to me that we needed bigger blocks and the one MB limit is purely artificial. Historically, the block-size limit was introduced to make it impossible to spam-attack the network while bitcoins were cheap. Satoshi himself had no block-size limit. …

On linking blockchains in blockchains — More and more organizations are currently porting their digital asset infrastructure to blockchain technology. Ideally a blockchain is cheap to maintain and still secure from being tampering with. No single entity or several entities together should be able to control it and to change its internal state. In case a…

Privacy and Security++ Introducing Stealth Payments and Simplified Alias Verification (SAV) Introduction The initial draft of BitAlias was not designed with privacy in mind, thus all payments where public. BitAlias II is introducing unlimited public and stealth payments. …