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A quick tour of the Tezos code base, and the state of its development

This post is an attempt to give a tour of the Tezos code base and its state of development. All of the functionality described in the whitepaper has been implemented...

“There is no need for hard forks”

But there will be hard-forks nonetheless

Scaling Tezos

In which we do not pursue sharding as a scaling technique

diff 2014/tezos 2017/tezos

tl;dr: * We made a some tweaks to the three year old white paper. Scroll to the bottom of this post for a list

Tezos: Philosophy and Values

This is meant to be a concise guide to the principles and values we hope to see embodied by the Tezos network. A longer, more detailed version of this list...

Hard-Fork Politics

Like an idol with feet of clay, the oft-touted mathematical immutability of blockchains stands on a weak foundation so long as hard forks remain a possibility. Indeed, the rules of...