70218.7k (140437.41%) raised of the 50k KAS needed! We are excited to announce the opening of a pool to raise funds for the implementation of the DAGKnight protocol! The pool address is: kaspa:ppk66xua7nmq8elv3eglfet0xxcfuks835xdgsm5jlymjhazyu6h5ac62l4ey See here for...
BY: Yonatan Sompolinsky Sharing below quick thoughts on development funding models and sustainability, and on the next grant request, with the hopes that my incentive biases do not contaminate my thought process too much: DAGKNIGHT (DK) was an academic effort by...
BY: Yonatan Sompolinsky Crypto winters are warm for projects with character. Last month Michal Sutton and I published the DAGKNIGHT protocol (DK), which to the best of our knowledge is the first POW consensus protocol that is responsive to the network’s actual...
Short Version: GHOSTDAG allows us to make a chain out of the parallel blocks in the BlockDAG, which results in the same security guarantees provided by Nakamoto consensus (bitcoin), but with increased throughput and lower confirmation times. Long Version: The fact...
BY: Yonatan Sompolinsky This is a concrete version of a longer post which I started writing but had too much spare time so didn’t complete yet.Context: One of Kaspa’s core devs, Michael Sutton, suggested a plan to order-of-magnitude enhance Kaspad full-node...
From original Artcle by Shai (Deshe) Wyborski. Outdated – the most recent work on this can be found here: Proof-of-Work: the Book It is astonishing to see how fast the Kaspa community is growing. But as Kaspa gains more traction and popularity, it becomes...