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Vlad Zamfir

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Vlad Zamfir is a researcher of cryptoeconomics and consensus protocols, particularly proof-of-stake protocols. Since 2014, Zamfir has been researching proof-of-stake implementations in anticipation of Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work. The current model he has been perfecting is called correct-by-construction Casper.
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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell - 2015-08-08 (first published in 1918)
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been...
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The Lily
Evolution, Play, and the Power of a Free Society
Daniel Cloud - 2011-01-01
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Why does a free society work so well? Are civil and political rights really indispensible for full modernity? Must we be free because we're prescient or because we're blind? The book is intended as a contribution to the genre that includes Mill's "On Liberty," Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" and Popper's "Open Society and its Enemies."...
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Complexity
Life at the Edge of Chaos
Roger Lewin - 2000-02-14 (first published in 1992)
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"Put together one of the world's best science writers with one of the universe's most fascinating subjects and you are bound to produce a wonderful book. . . . The subject of complexity is vital and controversial. This book is important and beautifully done."—Stephen Jay Gould"[Complexity] is that curious mix of complication and organization that w...
Vlad Zamfir
One of the books given most as a gift.      source