Commentary - CSPR Ghost Staking

January 16, 2022

The Byzantine Generals’ Problem

A lot of our readers may have heard or read the word ‘Byzantine’ or the phrase ‘Byzantine fault tolerance’ over and over again when researching Blockchain consensus. In fact we discuss the specifics within our deep dive into Casper CBC in the section entitled ‘Byzantine Fault Tolerence (BFT) and Guaranteed of common protocol future‘. So what exactly is ‘Byzantine’ and…

Bobby Commentary 0 4 min read

November 21, 2021

Casper vs Hedera

Hedera Hashgraph launched in 2018 with a unique hashgraph consensus mechanism which is unlike standard blockchain technology. The project has been marketed as ‘enterprise grade’ with a governing council of many well known, large and respected industry giants across a large variety of sectors. We shall review the Hashgraph consensus mechanism, drawing parallels with existing blockchain technologies and noting how…

Bobby Commentary 2 14 min read

October 23, 2021

Casper vs Cardano

As Cardano is ranked #4 in terms of market capitalization (~$70bn), by far the largest PoS network, we shall try to understand the reason for this valuation. We shall be inspecting both the protocol and adoption strategy and conclude why we believe Casper is stronger both in terms of longer term fundamentals, but also short term relative value. As we…

Bobby Commentary 1 17 min read

October 22, 2021

Nothing-At-Stake, Long Range Attacks & Dynamic Availability

Nothing At Stake The principal of a Nothing-At-Stake issue with Proof-Of-Stake blockchains is that validator risks nothing when creating blocks on a different chain. This can be illustrated by considering a fork into chain A and B. As a block producer (validator) gets rewarded for producing blocks, with the aforementioned fork the validator can choose to work on (1) only…

Bobby Commentary 2 3 min read

September 17, 2021

Casper vs Polkadot

Within this article, we shall do a mini deep dive into the Polkadot 1 blockchain, specifically the sharded architecture and parachains, and conclude with comparisons to the Casper layer 1 blockchain. We shall argue that with the increased capabilities of bridging between blockchains, the focus should be on developing secure layer 1 chains (potentially with varying characteristics) and then applying…

Bobby Commentary 2 11 min read

September 7, 2021

How To Choose A Validator

In this educational piece I want to highlight the true risks and considerations you need to make when choosing a validator to stake your valuable CSPR tokens. There are a lot of misconceptions that you have to pay a higher fee to ensure the safety of your tokens or have to delegate to a larger node, is is all incorrect….

Bobby Commentary 0 4 min read

September 1, 2021

Casper vs Avalanche

Within this article, we shall do a mini deep dive into the Avalanche layer 1 blockchain, specifically the Avalanche snowball consensus protocol and conclude with comparisons to the Casper layer 1 blockchain and CBC consensus protocol and finally argue why we believe CSPR is the stronger of the two tokens. As we have extensively covered CSPR in our previous articles,…

Bobby Commentary 0 10 min read

August 27, 2021

Bitcoin Mining – Hashrate & Difficulty

This article is aimed to educate on the topic of Bitcoin mining. As Bitcoin is a large driver of the overall market, its wise to understand the dynamics of how it is mined. We shall over: Overview of bitcoin mining – what is entailed Mining rewards / schedule Difficulty Hashrate Mining pools Hash Ribbons / Miner Capitulation and Buy Signals…

Bobby Commentary 0 5 min read

August 17, 2021

Casper vs Solana

With the recent increase in the price of the Solana (SOL) token, reaching a market cap of $18bn, we thought we would do a mini deep-dive into the project, highlight comparisons with CSRP and conclude why we believe CSPR is the stronger of the two tokens. Additionally we shall cover what we believe are the drivers of the SOL price…

Bobby Commentary 2 9 min read

August 7, 2021

Blockchains For Enterprise

In this article, I shall focus on some use cases for enterprise blockchains, when it is suited and why we think CSPR has strong future in within this sector. Recalling from our previous article covering Crypto Past, Present and Future, we discussed how the crypto market has evolved, some factors driving the current price action and also where we think…

Bobby Commentary 0 14 min read