About a month ago, a special announcement took the cryptocurrency community by storm: a large US bank is planning to launch a blockchain-based digital currency! Countless news articles, blog posts, and Twitter threads have vigorously discussed the project dubbed JPM Coin since, meeting the news with either great excitement or general skepsis. Now that the […]
Cryptocurrency
A Note On Censorship Resistance
TL;DR Cryptocurrencies have been designed to provide censorship resistance – the ability to do things others wouldn’t let you do. This property comes at a substantial cost, which may outweigh the benefits for many use cases. What is censorship resistance? Censorship resistance is one of those terms that keep floating around the cryptocurrency space for […]