Everyone knows that if you are looking to speculate you invest in GME, AMC, tulips, and Bitcoin, in that order, but if you’re looking for a functional, sustainable cryptocurrency you use Peercoin. What they don’t know is when to use Peercoin as opposed to traditional databases or even just spreadsheet…

Cryptocurrency has its roots firmly in spam and denials of service. The pioneers of Proof-of-Work took the computation of a puzzle to be a fee that could be paid to force spammers and attackers to lose something in their efforts, that didn’t cost the friendlies enough to be a deterrent…

Let’s talk motivation. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? Why do you want to stay in bed in the morning? There is a constant balance between pleasure and duty, a mixing of chemicals and spirit that makes you do you. And sometimes, let’s be honest, a…

Peercoin is an innovative project that pioneered the concept of Proof of Stake blockchain security in order to drastically reduce the energy consumption required to validate transactions. Since Peercoin was founded more than 7 years ago, a huge number of blockchain projects have adopted Proof of Stake in one form…

A request for comments (RFC) is a design process, standardized by Rust, intended to provide a consistent method for making substantial changes to protocol. The Peercoin RFCs are therefore potential protocol advancements to be discussed by developers and interested members of the community. Currently, the majority of RFCs are aimed…

The long awaited v0.6 soft-fork update is finally here! Among a host of technical updates over v0.5, the new release boasts a number of GUI (graphic user interface) updates as well as the proof of concept for a real pivot in development flow. …

Index funds democratized finance by allowing the average investor access to a broad range of assets at a low cost. When John Bogle and The Vanguard Group introduced index funds to the public in 1974, many financial professionals considered it a blunder, even calling index funds “un-American”. However, index funds…

In this article I will explore governance and consensus as it applies to blockchains and blockchain applications. You may be familiar with some of the acronyms used, but please put aside your own definitions such that you may be open to the conclusions described. This discussion is about preserving the…

Table of Contents Introduction Background Checkpointing Stake Grinding Nothing at Stake Intentional Forking PeerShares Nu/B&C Cold-Minting The Halvening PeerAssets Quite Good Money Conclusion Suggested Reading (by section) 1. Introduction Sunny Kingdoms Sunny King (SK) and Scott Nadal pioneered the Proof of Stake (PoS) protocol via Peercoin (PPC) in August 2012, building off the work previously done by…