Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per day according to coinmarketcap.com. The underlying technology of blockchains to achieve distributed consensus has been touted as a solution to many challenges in decentralized systems. A … Continue reading Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?