Hycon — The Tale of the First Million BlocksIt has been just under a year since we launched the Hycon blockchain, and in the last week or so it reached its millionth block. At this…May 15, 2019May 15, 2019
Published inDataDrivenInvestorModifying the Merkle Patricia TrieMy focus the last couple of months has been entirely on the migration of the Hycon codebase to rust, which has led to a deep dive into…Mar 21, 20191Mar 21, 20191
Published inDataDrivenInvestorBlockchain - Just A Laggy Multithreaded SystemAs part of our research process, an interesting analogy came to me. What it boils down to is that a distributed system like a blockchain…Feb 20, 2019Feb 20, 2019
Git WorkflowsThey key to building any project with multiple participants is concurrency. Work needs to be divided and worked on by participants without…Feb 12, 2019Feb 12, 2019
Rugby World Cup, Ticketing, and Technological ToutsThe process for obtaining tickets for this year’s Rugby World Cup to be hosted in Japan has been a lengthy complicated one, with various…Jan 16, 2019Jan 16, 2019
Binary Merkle TrieThere’s a SPECTRE on the horizon, looming over the Hycon blockchain like an intangible shadow, with its promises of vast improvements in…Dec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018
The Exodus Block — Summarising the History of the HYCON BlockchainAs a result of our discovery of a network breaking bug we starting giving some real thought as to how this might affect the history of the…Dec 13, 2018Dec 13, 2018
Responsible Disclosure in the Age of BlockchainI got a right giggle out of an incident in our office months ago. One of the team is particularly green fingered, and had ordered a bunch…Dec 5, 2018Dec 5, 2018
The Road to SPECTRE is paved with GHOST-ly IntentionsFor those who may not have been paying attention, HYCON recently pushed out an upgrade including our interpretation of the GHOST protocol…Nov 13, 2018Nov 13, 2018
The Curious Case of the Broken Chrome ExtensionThe internet is an irksome place, in that I daily find things that irk me. Case in point being Google’s latest Chrome update. As I’m sure…Sep 10, 2018Sep 10, 2018
Rugby On The BlockchainThe way that World Rugby calculates the current rankings is quite interesting. Essentially the result of a game can be boiled down to an…Sep 3, 2018Sep 3, 2018
