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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Archives, Artefacts and Data Marketplaces of Post-Factual Data: Future Cryptoeconomics as Data Loam
During the 2 years of the research project DATA LOAM, the Research Institute for Arts & Technology (RIAT, Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics) worked with a set of experimental and exploratory […]
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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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Critical Decentralisation Cluster (36c3)
The Critical Decentralisation Cluster at Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is an area and grouping of similar minded projects, which are offering workshops and host a space to critically discuss the […]
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Ralph Pichler
Ralph Pichler is a Smart Contracts and Blockchain veteran, and co-founded one of the first Ethereum meetups worldwide in 2014. Dubbed the “Dennis Rodman of Ethereum” he became well-known in […]
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Matthias Tarasiewicz
Matthias Tarasiewicz (parasew) is a senior developer, technology consultant and research designer. He is an enthusiast for immutable and unstoppable code and an Open-Source evangelist. Focus areas: Open-Source Hardware, Web3, […]
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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 […]
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RIAT Press features
Overview of external mentions and texts written about RIAT Institute. Austrian Blockchain Award 2022 – participation in the jury and selection process. WKO Vienna, May 31, 2022. Beginner’s Mind #60: […]
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Contact RIAT Institute
RIAT Institute focuses on research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization. To get in contact for consultancy, research and development […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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: […]
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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 […]
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Coded Cultures: New Media Arts and Production Cultures ( Tarasiewicz, 2011)
Coded Cultures are novel structures of (self) organization: cultural accomplishments of new organizational forms (DAOs) in context with a transforming environment to introduce novel cultural artifacts, »distributed agency« and »nouveau […]
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RIAT Open Hardware Dialogues at OSHWA Open Source Hardware Month
Open Hardware Month is a format by OSHWA (the Open Source Hardware Association). OSHWA is calling for worldwide action in the name of Open Source Hardware. RIAT will be hosting […]
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Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware
Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware sheds light into the motivations and different open source strategies, as well as the different levels of “openness” (openisms) in open design movements. Openism […]
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RIAT Essentials
RIAT Essentials is a new workshop series for the improvement of business models, evaluation and validation of research-driven projects. RIAT has a long and vivid history of mentoring and developing […]
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RIAT decentral archive of process artefacts 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 Vienna, as well as the Master’s program Arts […]
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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 […]
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Smart Contract Development with Ethereum (skills)
Gained skills In this course you will learn deep technical knowledge about Ethereum. Afterwards you will know all the important terminology and concepts how the Ethereum Protocol processes transactions in […]
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Materials list
List of materials and consumables which are in use by the labs and workgroups. RIAT consists of different labs and workgroups, which work internationally but have specific shared resources in […]
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Coded Cultures: New Creative Practices out of Diversity (Edition Angewandte)
In this book detailed reviews and perspectives from international artists, theorists, researchers and curators are presented and put into context with different tendencies of art, science, design and technology. Through […]
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HCPP 2019: The past, present and future of Opt-Out with Open and Libre Hardware
Abstract [Talk by Matthias Tarasiewicz] FOSH in the past years has moved away from being a small niche and has developed to a relevant movement with significant and well-known projects. […]
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Algosystems.research: Hrvoje Hiršl
Artist, Hrvoje Hiršl, will present last 5 years of his artistic research divided in 3 topics, ranging from the shortening of time and space under the influence of exponential technological […]
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Journal for Cryptoeconomics
New configurations of cryptography, economics, network engineering, game theory and mathematics open up complex questions that require interdisciplinary rigour and engagement. We define the field of cryptoeconomics as the interdisciplinary […]
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Conversations on Cryptopolitics
In reconfiguring the distribution of trust, new questions arise concerning the organisation of society. The accelerated pace of progress in the cryptosphere necessitates a research methodology that can accommodate the […]
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Algosystems.research: Hrvoje Hiršl – Dec 11, 2018
RIAT will celebrate the end of the year with a small party and a talk from Hrvoje Hiršl, moderated by Aner Barzilay It all started with industrial revolution – steam machine and […]
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Future Cryptoeconomics Launch – Devcon4 Prague
The launch of Future Cryptoeconomics – a quarterly publication that examines the global cryptoeconomic condition and its effects on culture and society. Future Cryptoeconomics are debated and tested in almost real-time, […]
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Events Archive of the RIAT Institute
The event archive is currently under reconstruction. Please see the RIAT Github for events and participations. If you find something missing in the list here, please open an issue on […]
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Advanced Smart Contract Development with Ethereum
In this 3-day course we cover advanced patterns such as implementing state channels, delegators / proxies for upgradability and take a deeper look at debugging, optimisation and security tools. In […]
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Smart Contract Development with Ethereum
This 4-day course teaches the basics of smart contract development on the Ethereum platform using Solidity and the Truffle Framework. It covers the full workflow of developing, testing and deploying […]
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Developer trainings in Blockchain, Smart Contracts, EVM, WASM and Rust.
The RIAT Academy is aimed at preparing developers for the future crypto-era. RIAT academy provides training in the domains of blockchain, smart contract development, EVM, WASM and Rust. We are […]
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AXIOM Open Source Cinema
The Horizon 2020 project AXIOM laid the groundwork for the development of the first open source professional digital cinema camera that can be produced, modified and adapted by everyone. AXIOM […]
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Artistic Technology Research
Artistic Technology Research was an interdisciplinary research project focusing on contemporary practices in technology-based arts. It investigated contemporary practices in (new) media arts by looking at the change of aesthetics […]
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Making Artistic Technology
The science communication project Making Artistic Technology uses participatory learning strategies to communicate the contents and results of the project ‘Artistic Technology Research’ to the general public. Making Artistic Technology […]
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Journal for Research Cultures
The Journal for Research Cultures is a peer-reviewed platform for the communication and presentation of strategies of experimental, transdisciplinary and artistic research practices across epistemic cultures. The journal is published […]
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Future Cryptoeconomics: Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Blockchain, Forking, and a novel discipline
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 […]
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Background
Production in the 21st century works with distributed authorship and identities. Our projects are collective inquiries formed by distributing agency between humans, machines, and programs. RIAT is a research institute […]
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Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Smart Contract Development for Ethereum This course is targeting programmers who already have solid experience in an object-oriented programming language. In particular this means you should know: Imperative Programming […]
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Publications
Future Cryptoeconomics #1 (Tarasiewicz, Newman, Antonopoulos, Brekke, Stark, Miyazaki, Buterin, Polat, Schuppli, Hubik). ISSN: 2617-6289 Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and Distributed Pseudonymity in […]
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RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as […]