Fri Sep 06 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) PREFACE When Kaspa launched almost three years ago, I found myself in an awkward...
Thu Sep 05 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) In this post, we dive in some depth into the mathematics of proving Bitcoin’s secu...
Wed Sep 04 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) This post is mainly dedicated to a subtle phenomenon called selfish mining, a very...
Mon Sep 02 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Safety and liveness are properties defined in terms of the asymptotics of confiden...
Thu Aug 29 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) One way to define the contrast between safety and liveness is that the former mean...
Thu Aug 29 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) The safety property of blockChains is a statement about how quickly the confidence...
Mon Aug 26 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Truly understanding blockChain and blockDAGs, to the extent you could make your ow...
Sun Aug 25 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Many people “know” that a blockChain protocol is “secure” if “transactions cannot ...
Sun Aug 25 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Armed with the blockChain paradigm, we can now easily manufacture many blockChain ...
Sun Aug 25 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Your mental image of Bitcoin probably goes something like this: miners discover bl...
Sun Aug 25 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) It is “common knowledge” that many people have that PoW is “better than” BFT, beca...
Sun Aug 25 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) Before we start, do me a favor and forget everything you ever heard about PoW. Mos...
