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Qubic Selfish Mining Update (Footnotes fix)
Based on the numbers at the time (2.6 GH/s peak vs ~6.71 peak GH/s total Monero network), Qubic’s actual share was nowhere near majority If factoring in their selfish mining strategy, their best so far was around 28% Hashpower is self-reported, as demonstrated by fastpool and visible through the delta of network hashrate and pool…
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qubic attack on XMR monero: No 51% attack has happened
Based on the numbers at the time (2.6 GH/s peak vs ~6.71 peak GH/s total Monero network), Qubic’s actual share was nowhere near majority If factoring in their selfish mining strategy, their best so far was around 28% Hashpower is self-reported, as demonstrated by fastpool and visible through the delta of network hashrate and pool…
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Reaction to Coindesk’s poorly researched article about an alleged 51% attack on the Monero Network
Monero was not 51% attacked. This article debunks CoinDesk’s report, revealing how Qubic’s hashrate claims were faked to mislead the crypto community. This is the original e-mail sent to the coindesk editors. We are tracking wrong media representations for Monero and are keeping track in the public Github repository “monero-responses”. Dear Coindesk, We are writing…
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Semi Automated Techno-Feudalism: The Dystopian Zeitgeist and Our Complicity
The once distant, neon-drenched skylines of cyberpunk fiction are no longer mere speculative backdrops; they are increasingly resembling the architectural plans of our present. We are not just stumbling into this future; a peculiar zeitgeist seems to be actively embracing a sanitized, even aspirational, version of dystopia. This isn’t about “fully automated luxury communism” but…
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Open, Libre and Privacy tools
List of suggested privacy tools, compiled by parasew. Tools and services which are libre and verifiable.
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Hot topics in Blockchain and Web3 (2023 edition)
2023 edition of trends in Blockchain and Web3. A previous version of this research has been published in Blockchain Technology Report, by Vienna Business Agency (2022). This post is an updated version from 2023. Since the creation of Bitcoin and the first blockchain in 2009, many established industry sectors have made use of this technology…
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Query Publics in the Next Society
Is the term New Media Art is still relevant in the 21st century? In this paper we are presenting Artistic Technology Research as dispositif and synergetic discipline for the agency of research and development in next cultures. In conclusion, a new taxonomy is needed. This essay is published in A Peer Reviewed Journal About Back…
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The roots of Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in Austria
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in Austria Seven years of Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in Austria is an info-graphic by RIAT Institute. The research concluded findings from Bitcoin Austria, Ethereum Vienna as well as international researchers from the RIAT network. Initially shown at Forum Alpbach in 2017 the graphic outlines the past and future…
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SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education
In the Context of Artistic Research Education: The opening part of this book consists of two chapters. The first of these attempts to outline the multiple genealogies and contexts of artistic research education in a way that seeks (I) to understand why the notion of artistic research is contested and (II) to identify some of…
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Crypto-Economics: Infrastructures and Artefacts
Crypto-Economics: Infrastructures and Artefacts (“Cryptoeconomics”) is an early publication from the RIAT Institute. The publication is showcasing the Austrian communities around cryptography, DLT and cryptocurrency. RIAT has produced this publication for Forum Alpbach in 2017. Crypto-Economics: the seeds of the crypto dream In the 1970s, three different developments (the ciphers DES and RSA, as well…
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Openism – Projects and Conversations in Open Source Hardware
Openism unravels the development of open hardware from Richard Stallman, Joshua Pearce, Andrew Huang, Katherine Scott, Madeline Gannon, Silvia Lindtner and others. Stories of 3D-printed stethoscopes in the Gaza Strip, hacked, DIY gynecological equipment and complete science labs built out of open hardware. Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware sheds light into the motivations and…
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Making Artistic Technology: Illustrated book for kids, new makers and future hardware hackers
Hacking has an aura of rebellion and is democratizing decentralization. But products are not produced by sophisticated robots, but through working hands-on, hacking away under sometimes harmful conditions. Communities produce, manufacture, hack and repair things, even if out of necessity. Hacking as artistic method generates artistic technology. The open access book Making Artistic Technology contains…
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Forking as Cultural Practice: Institutional Governance after The DAO
The “right to fork” is inherent in the fundamental software freedoms common. Forking also takes place in “traditional institutions” such as non-profit associations and political and religious movements. Forking was in the spotlight when a controversy about The DAO had caused Ethereum to split in two instances. This essay is part of the Proceedings of…
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Future Cryptoeconomics: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Forking, and a novel discipline
Future Cryptoeconomics is publication that examines the global cryptoeconomic condition and its effects on culture and society. The Future Cryptoeconomics Magazine is available via Motto Distribution Geneva, Switzerland and is part of the RIAT publications. We live in times of zero trust, a term stemming from computer security research, which is applied to all sectors and…
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Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments
Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments: how Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and other Cryptocurrency is based on experimental economics of distributed experimentation. This chapter is part of the Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data edited by David LEE Kuo Chuen. Since Bitcoin other Altcoins (Litecoin, Ethereum, Monero) emerged as Distributed Community Experiments…
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Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research
Faceless praxis in the age of zero trust is part of the book Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies. We live in times of Zero (Western, 2013), a term stemming from computer security research. Zero Trust “applies to all sectors and businesses”. Most prominently Zero Trust is used in cryptoeconomic systems such as Bitcoin…
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RIAT decentral archive of process artifacts at the DATA LOAM exhibition
DATA LOAM is an exhibition in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art in London, RIAT International, as well as Arts & Science program (Virgil Widrich). Data Loam is a PEEK project for the development of the arts, funded by the FWF, the Fund for the advancement/promotion of scientific…