By Coinbase Special Investigations Team In our last post we introduced the cornerstone of scaling up blockchain analysis, commonspend, and its pitfalls. In this blog post we’ll explore more complex and novel blockchain analysis scaling methods, their drawbacks and why time is a critical feature of blockchain analytics. Change prediction is the second most commonly...Read More
Verifying the integrity of blockchain transactions By Misha Zharov TL;DR: Coinbase is a leader in securing crypto assets. As part of our proactive approach to security, we’re introducing a new security control that will provide guarantees about our transactions. What is an invariant? In Computer Science, an invariant is a property of a system that...Read More
By Michael Lodder Zero-Knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are an increasingly popular means of enhancing privacy both in identity and cryptocurrency. The initial zero-knowledge proof ideas were first published in the 1980’s which at the time were dismissed as cryptography that wouldn’t go anywhere. Around that time, David Chaum pioneered the idea of enabling zero knowledge electronic...Read More
Apple’s new family of iPhone models has got everybody talking, with a launch date for the new iPhone 12 Pro expected in September, this year. Review site PocketLint expects multiple new features for the family of phones. Will this be the year that Apple steps into the crypto phone space to rival leading competitor, Samsung? ...Read More
Financial cryptographer. Cypherpunk. Inventor of Ricardian contracts and early utilizer of triple-entry accounting systems, which would later be exemplified in Bitcoin. Ian Grigg may have claimed that Satoshi was a team effort and is now dead, only living on in bitcoiners everywhere, but some seem to think it’s him. In this installment of “the many...Read More
