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The Byzantine Generals’ Problem

January 16, 2022
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Casper vs Hedera

November 21, 2021
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Casper vs Cardano

October 23, 2021
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Nothing-At-Stake, Long Range Attacks & Dynamic Availability

October 22, 2021
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Casper vs Polkadot

September 17, 2021

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June 27, 2021

Risk-ON vs Risk-OFF, Value vs Growth

As crypto is increasingly becoming considered an asset class (discussed within our regulation and banking adoption posts), it is important to understand the characteristics of the market such that we can start predicting future demand. In this article we shall introduce some basic classifications of asset classes and further elaborate upon this in later posts where we shall discuss macro…

Bobby Commentary 0 2 min read
June 26, 2021

Casper Highway Protocol

In the previous post on Casper CBC, we saw the foundation of a consensus protocol framework of “correct-by-construction” consensus protocols that each shared the same proof of Byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus safety, allowing refinements and improvements without needing to re-prove safety each time. The issue of liveness was not addressed however. The development of the Casper Highway Protocol by CasperLabs provided Strong…

Gary Commentary 0 5 min read
June 25, 2021

Institutional and Banking Adoption

Traditional Investment Manager Adoption Guggenheim Partners – a £315bn US investment firm has publicly stated their view of a potential for Bitcoin price to reach between $400k and $600k in the long term. They have also submitted a filing with the SEC for registering the Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund which will invest in financial products, such as derivatives, whose value…

Bobby Commentary 1 6 min read
June 24, 2021

Market Bubbles

At Ghost staking we feel that lessons and analogies for crypto investment and specifically our investment in CSPR can be ascertained from analysing the following non-exhaustive key topics: Coin specific information and data Crypto generic market information and data Market trends in other asset classes Macro economic change Regulatory impact Structural shift in market behaviour Historic events Specifically in this…

Bobby Commentary 1 5 min read
June 23, 2021

Casper CBC

What is CBC : Correct-by-Construction? In an earlier post we saw how consensus protocols form the very fundamentals of blockchains where independent nodes validate transactions on the network, i.e. the very basic concept of decentralized ledgers. There are then two critical security properties that we must consider for any consensus protocol: safety and liveness. Safety: A protocol is safe if…

Bobby Commentary 2 7 min read
June 22, 2021

Blockchain Consensus Protocols

Consensus protocols form the very fundamentals of blockchains where independent nodes, validate transactions on the network, i.e. the very basic concept of decentralized ledgers. A network becomes susceptible to attack if any malicious entity gains control of 51% of the network (known as a 51% attack). Before we move on to cover the principals of CBC (Correct-By-Construction) protocol, as used…

Bobby Commentary 1 2 min read
June 21, 2021

Crypto Regulation

US Crypto Regulation US financial authorities are planning to take a more active role in regulating so we thought we would cover a few key points in this post. The opinion of the team at Ghost Staking is that greater regulation is a good thing and required to push adoption of crypto more into the mainstream. One sign of greater…

Bobby Commentary 1 4 min read
June 20, 2021

Ethereum, Casper and the CSPR blockchain

There are two separate consensus algorithms defined as being Casper protocols FFG – Friendly Finality Gadget CBC – Correct By Construct aka ‘Casper the friendly GHOST‘ Currently Ethereum is a Proof-Of-Work (POW) blockchain. This means it is constrained by the same drawbacks as all POW blockchains, namely efficiency and security, read more about consensus protocols here. Because of this, the…

Bobby Commentary 0 2 min read
June 19, 2021

GHOST Protocol

Ghost (Greedy Heaviest Observer SubTree)  was initially proposed for the Bitcoin blockchain and solves for some of the security and efficiency problems currently seen with that and other Proof-Of-Work blockchains. Before we explore some of the high-level details of this protocol and also how this lead to the creation of the Casper protocols (FFG & CBC) and development of the…

Bobby Commentary 1 2 min read
June 11, 2021

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