Archive for September, 2015

Proof of unique blockchain storage revised

Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on September 16, 2015

In this post I describe a new way to for a node in the Bitcoin blockchain to prove to its peers that it is storing a copy of the blockchain. The core primitive that enables this protocol this is the Asymmetric-Time Function (ATF). You won’t get much info by googling ATF since I coined that term […]

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DagCoin: a cryptocurrency without blocks

Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on September 11, 2015

Back in 2012 I thought a lot on a new cryptocurrency that could merge the concepts of transaction and block. Each transaction would carry a proof-of-work and reference one or more previous transactions. The resulting authenticated data structure would be a Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) of transactions where each transaction “confirms” one or more previous […]

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