Category: Research

Censorship of Harmful Data in Blockchains

Hartwig MayerNo Comments

Reading Time: 17 minutes

Public blockchains allow insertion of arbitrary data. Even specific-purpose blockchains like Bitcoin already contain a lot of non-financial data. Although this data insertion can be beneficial in some use cases (e.g. proof of existence), it can also cause damage. If a blockchain contained videos with instructions on how to torture someone, there would immediately be broad consensus that this data must be deleted. But since blockchains are supposed to be immutable databases, the question is: what can be done if this happens?

A Short Guide Through the Universe of Blockchain Based Micropayment Systems

Hartwig MayerNo Comments

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Micropayment take place in pay-as-you-go software service models, micro donations, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In these contexts payments for values which are usually under the smallest unit of fiat money (e.g. $0.001) are needed. Prepaid cards can solve this problem. Another approach uses cryptocurrencies in the blockchain, having the advantage of allowing exact […]

Some Insights into Cardano ´s Blockchain

Hartwig MayerNo Comments

Reading Time: 5 minutes

In this blog post, we present a high-level overview of the paper describing the Ouroboros Proof of Stake protocol implemented in Cardano´s blockchain. After the overview follow some comments about theoretical aspects of the protocol.
In general, Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus protocols elect the network nodes responsible to send the next block to the blockchain on the basis of the nodes’ amount of stake.

An Efficient Algorithm to Exploit Arbitrage Opportunities in Crypto Markets

Federico CacciaNo Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes

The crypto market is still inefficient. Cryptoassets have different rates on different exchanges. The big question is how we can profit from that inefficiency. One approach is making transactions between exchanges, but if we buy a cryptoasset on one exchange, by the time we can sell it on another, the price difference may no longer […]

Dogethereum: A Decentralized Blockchain Bridge Between Dogecoin and Ethereum is Born

Sebastian WainNo Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes

The second stage of the Dogethereum bridge was presented on September 5, 2018 at 10 am (PT) and live streamed. The bridge uses “superblocks” to move coins from Dogecoin to Ethereum and collateralization to move coins from Ethereum to Dogecoin. We are excited because this innovation can also be used to bridge other blockchain pairs. […]

Decentralized Blockchain Bridges, Blockchain Innovations, and Cryptoasset Investment Frameworks

Sebastian WainNo Comments

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At CoinFabrik we are organizing internal presentations in response to interesting work we are doing. As we have grown, scheduling time to share our projects and ideas has become essential. Recent presentations have included: Decentralized Blockchain Bridges Last year Oscar Guindzberg, TrueBit, and CoinFabrik partnered to create a decentralized trustless bridge between Dogecoin and Ethereum […]