This tutorial is based on Polkadot POC2. The following article series “Polkadot Hello World' describes the steps and findings during my personal kickoff phase in the area of the Polkadot multi-chain framework. In the last months, I was extensively r... Read More
David Glibertson, describes in his excellent Medium Series “My adventures in Crypto” an new visionary idea how the mining energy wasting could be converted in some useful energy consumption by solving real world puzzles. What a nice idea, here the e... Read More
Scalability and the slowness of Blockchains is a hot topic in the crypto community. Georgio Konstantopoulos (@LoomNetwork) provides a very good introduction to the topic in his Medium artice 'Scalability Tradeoffs: “Why The Ethereum Killer” Hasn’t A... Read More
Origin, which are building a platform for decentralized peer-to-peer marketplaces, published recently an excellent tutorial and Youtube video about “Managing Identity with a UI for ERC 725”. ERC 725 (and 735) — a proposed standard for managing identi... Read More
The team behind Bitcoin Play, is looking at the last 10 years of bitcoin and produced a very nice and informative infographic “62 insane facts about bitcoin”. It all started with the release of the Bitcoin Whitepaper in 2007, which describes Bitcoin,... Read More
An interesting blockchain based solution to watch is Blockstack. Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps. A very good and easy to read overview is given in their Blockstack Overview document. Blockstack aims to accelerate and facilitate t... Read More
This is a very basic visual introduction to the concepts behind a blockchain. Andres Brownworth introduces the idea of an immutable ledger using an interactive web demo. If you are interested in playing with this on your own, it is available online a... Read More
This is a very inspiring blog article by Google AI’s subsidiary DeepMind which introduces Verifiable Data Audit for Health Data based on a blockchain like technology. As they write: 'Data can be a powerful force for social progress, helping our most... Read More
The cointelegraph.com website is a constant source of stories about the progress and development in the area of blockchain and bitcoin. In an article today, they asked the question if we really need banks ? There a referencing to very interesting poi... Read More
Christopher Allen provides all the time very profound blog articles in the context of blockchain, identity and authorization topics. The Smart Signatures white paper from Rebooting the Web of Trust conference is giving an excellent and easy to unders... Read More
Josh Stark provides in this article an excellent introduction to the topic of Blockchain Governance Applications. It starts with a simple definition of the term “Governance” This is what I mean by 'governance' for the purposes of this article – the p... Read More
Due to the recent DAO hack in the Ethereum blockchain network (which resulted in the stealing of around 50 millions), I was starting to dig a little bit deeper into this new technology approach. The topic is quite complex and overloaded with differen... Read More