Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender...
Proof of Work blockchains stand as the cornerstone of cryptocurrency technology, first popularized by Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency. At their core, these blockchains rely...
Recently, there was a small spat between the Core and Unlimited factions of the Bitcoin community, a spat which represents perhaps the fiftieth time...
Writing a prediction piece is a humbling thought experiment. My three wild bets for the year-of-the-Tiger turned out to be wildly inaccurate. Specifically:(1) I...
Nanotechnology is intimately intertwined with efforts to bring bottom-up synthetic cell research to the forefront, and only strengthening these bonds will expand the scope...
It’s no secret that anime food has a reputation for being gobsmackingly good-looking. This is especially true in Delicious in Dungeon, the new “action...
The mystery surrounding the Herculaneum scrolls, charred and seemingly unreadable for centuries, has taken a remarkable turn. A team of researchers has made significant...
Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog
This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-506585978d51
Systems like Ethereum (and Bitcoin, and NXT, and Bitshares, etc)...
IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...
Hello Stargazers, and welcome to February: the month of love, chocolate, and all things cozy. This month’s marvelous alignment in the stars catalyzes a...