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Re:Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:47AM (#15817165)
Author [Marc] here: I'm a master student at TU Delft and this was a literature survey in preparation for 1) the recent developments in the blockchain lab at TU Delft and 2) my master thesis -- and therefore also to stimulate my interests in blockchain technologies.
Re:Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:41AM (#15817123)
Author here: we did not invest; nor are we invested in any of the competitor projects mentioned in the article.
Hi Jay! Are you guys planning to take advantage/contribute of/to the libp2p project (https://github.com/libp2p)? Looks to me that some of the introduced standards/formats (e.g. multihash, multiaddr) could be adopted. This again would lead to an increased significance of libp2p. Regards, Marc

Options on Facebook ads as a financial product

Traditional stock options allow people to buy the right for a certain amount of an underlying product for a fixed price and sell it later to market value...I can imagine business owners would be interested in the idea of a virtual market around Facebook ads. It would work in a way such that people/traders are betting on reaching a certain conversion value, generated by the predefined ad they...

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