There's I guy called Ian Grigg who was involved in the early cypherpunks of the 90s ho is very knowledgeable about Ricardian contracts, which apparently are more expressive form of contract than smart contracts. Here is a podcast of his that the devs of Hashgraph might want to listen to. He's now working on the EOS blockchain project. https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-151
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151 – Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts And Digital Assets Prehistory
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and more here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC6RYwYPnpU
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Millions of transactions per second on EOS.IO blockchain | Interview Ian Grigg of Block.One
The absolute best presentation at the CryptoFinancing Conference in London was by Ian Grigg of Hong Kong based Block.One about EOS.IO, a blockchain (like Ethereum) that can do 50.000 transactions per second. The technology they're using might even make it…
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In this last video he talks about the use of messaging rather than state reach consensus in a system. It seems similar to gossip approach in a way. He has a paper called Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers. He says that many projects fail because they don't take into account all the various levels of knowledge needed for a successful decentralised system. Might be worth looking into also. http://iang.org/papers/fc7.html https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45472-1_23
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Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers
Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Cryptography, or between accountants and programmers, there is a grave danger that…
EOS Meetup in HK next Friday
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eosio-hong-kong-meet-up-tickets-42667012182?aff=es2
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eosio-hong-kong-meet-up-tickets-42667012182?aff=es2
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EOS.IO Hong Kong Meet-Up
We welcome you to attend the inaugural EOS.IO Hong Kong meetup.
We are excited to welcome some of the block.one team to present at this event; including senior analyst Josh Lavin and Partner Ian Grigg! This will be an exciting opportunity to engage with one…
We are excited to welcome some of the block.one team to present at this event; including senior analyst Josh Lavin and Partner Ian Grigg! This will be an exciting opportunity to engage with one…
