In the dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape of cryptocurrencies, a new entrant has emerged that is causing quite a stir. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator, has launched a project called Worldcoin. The objective of Worldcoin is both ambitious and straightforward — to create…

Veblen and Giffen Goods Veblen goods and Giffen goods are outliers in economics, contradicting the conventional law of demand. Veblen Goods: These luxury items, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, see increased demand as their prices escalate. …

Introduction Cryptocurrencies have fast become a central point of global attention, appealing to investors, tech enthusiasts, regulators, and a curious public. Much of this fascination emanates from the blockchain technology that powers cryptocurrencies. As an innovative and potentially transformative technology, blockchain promises a radical shift in various sectors, from finance to…

In the dynamic world of digital assets, Taiwan stands out as an interesting case study. Taiwan’s regulatory approach to cryptocurrencies appears to be one of progressive conservatism, where the government maintains cautious oversight while also acknowledging the potential of this burgeoning industry. …

Spamming and DDoS attacks have increased by a large margin in the past few years. While there are already a lot of rigid mitigation methods for guarding against lower-layer attacks(such as SYN or ICMP flooding, Smurf attack, DNS amplification, and more), implementation on application layer prove to be more troubling. …

Public key infrastructures plays an important role in our everyday lives, from internet browsing to secure transmission of sensitive materials. Among common PKIs, X.509 is currently the most popular and the default choice. Today, we’ll talk about how it works. Overview Here’s a brief view of what we’re going to cover …

With the cryptocurrency industry booming, privacy on the blockchain has become an increasing concern. Since major tokens such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin only attain pseudo-anonymity, a project to implement privacy on cryptocurrency came into being. The following article will focus on the privacy aspect of Monero, the ultimate privacy…

chatNT Github Repo: https://github.com/RuiSiang/chatNT Overview chatNT(chat Not Tracable) is an anonymous p2p chat application in C++ based on onion relay concept. Motivation In the past few years, freedoms of speech and press has been steeply violated all around the world. …

Among proof of work algorithms(PoW), randomx is an algorithm tailored specifically for the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Monero(XMR) and is well-known for several unique properties RandomX properties at a glance CPU-oriented, giving GPU/FPGA-mining a significant disadvantage. Dynamic work, implementing a nearly ASIC-proof property. Memory threshold, makes botnet/malware mining easily detectable and in some cases unable to undergo…