Last week my course Security Token Strategy at University of Nicosia’s IFF started for real, and this has kept me pretty busy. Today I recorded a number of videos for the course assignments, so I did not get around recording anything for the podcast. Instead I will be sharing one of the videos with you. It is about hash functions, and more specifically about the commit / reveal pattern that they allow implementing. To make it a bit more fun we are using it to play Rock, Paper, Scissors over Slack.

The course is now full, but we’ll run it again in the not too distant future. If you are interested, contact me [1] or have a look at the course page [2].

This podcast also exists as a YouTube video [3].

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Halvening is coming up and there seems to be a lot of confusing around what this will be doing to Bitcoin, and in particular the hash rate. On first sight this indeed looks like a complex problem, because the bitcoin mining community is a complex system, and the difficulty adjustment introduces a feedback loop the impact of which can be somewhat hard to understand. Fortunaly microeconomics has just the toolkit we need, in the form of the supply/demand analysis, to cut through all this complexity and to understand what will be going on.

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The core offering of “The Short STOry” is daily podcasts with commentary regarding current news items regarding security token offering and crypto assets more generally. From time to time there are topics we consider important enough to merit more in-depth discussion. Those topics can – but do not necessarily have to be – related to current news items.

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