Pulse launch: What went wrong and what went right
Without doubt, the Loki Pulse upgrade is our biggest ever blockchain update. Here is how its launch went.
Discussion
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Loki listens to it’s community and actively welcomes any discussions from their community to help build the tools they want.
DeFi: The dangerous game of governance tokens
The last few months have generated an explosion of discussion in the crypto world about governance tokens and so-called ‘yield farming’. There’s lots of chatter around incentive structures for the variety of actors in the field. In particular, the DeFi community has settled on a rather unusual consensus about the balance between arbitrageurs, liquidity and …
The Assistance and Access Bill 2018: One year later
Note: This is an updated post on another blog we wrote on this subject last year. It has been updated and edited to reflect recent events. It’s been around a year since the Australian Parliament tabled, and hurriedly passed, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Otherwise known as the AA …
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Strengthening Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Simon Harman Tuesday, 10 December marks Human Rights Day – the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations back in 1948. The UDHR is a visionary document that provided a ‘terms of service’ for our human rights. I live in Australia, and I tend to take my …
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The challenges of absolute freedom of expression
The freedom to communicate thoughts, ideas and our expressions is something we all value. So much so, the United Nations recognises freedom of expression as a fundamental human right. We have aligned Loki’s mission with this fundamental human right. Our technology gives everyone the opportunity to communicate, trade and express themselves with absolute freedom, security …
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Does Pulse Make the Rich Richer?
Loki Improvement Proposal: POS Scheme Pulse Recently we released our fifth Loki Improvement Proposal in which we outlined a new Proof of Stake scheme, Pulse. If it’s to be implemented, Pulse would have Service Nodes produce blocks, order transactions, and secure the blockchain, rendering miners in the Loki ecosystem no longer necessary. While we’re excited …
The Five Eyes Have Your Privacy in their Sights
The ‘Five Eyes Alliance’ – Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – have recently discussed installing ‘backdoors’ into popular messaging services like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger. A backdoor would allow high-level access (a.k.a. root access) to users authorised (or not) on a computer system, network or software application. One proposed method …
MLS and Federated Messaging
Note: This article was edited on Thu 27 Feb, 2020, to address our explanation of pairwise channels and the Sender Keys system as they pertain to encrypted group messaging. We apologise if our previous explanation of these systems caused confusion or uncertainty. Loki Messenger Group Messaging Over the last few years we have seen the …