decentralization Is decentralisation always better? (Part 2) What do people really want? Are they OK with sacrificing some privacy and freedom for better user experience and less effort. This is the key question.
blockchain How to become a Blockchain developer? Many people come to me ask about how they should proceed to become a developer in the blockchain space. I thought it would be a good idea to put down my thoughts in a post so that I can easily refer people to this.
blockchain Consensus Protocols: Tendermint and pBFT The consensus problem in distributes system is an age old problem. Byzantine General's Problem for achieving consensus in distributed process is a special class of problem in which some processes can take arbitrary actions (lie, deceive, etc.)
blockchain Can Blockchains solve the issues of trust in Supply Chain? 👇 One particular case which many people tout as a good use case of blockchains are Supply chains. Somehow its intuitive to people that blockchain should help here.
blockchain STOP! Blockchain can't solve Everything Blockchain on the face of it is needed to prevent the problem of double spending in a trustless environment. Only when there are multiple parties involved and there is a problem of trust between them, does applying blockchain based solutions help.
blockchain Proof-of-work as a signalling mechanism Crypto world is booming and at the core of this is the consensus mechanism introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto called Proof-of-Work. Bitcoin is based on proof-of-work consensus mechanism. The basic idea
blockchain Technology which is not Disruptive but Foundational - Blockchain Recent hype in blockchain aside, the fact that Blockchain is a completely different approach to doing tech can't be denied. Some key differences which make it non-intuitive to understand are:
