Tomorrow is the big day that the ETH2 - Beacon Chain will launch at 13:00 CET. It is a big deal because it addresses the 2 big concerns about blockchain: The consensus algorithm is now shifting towards

I'm trying to understand the transaction capacity of the XRP ledger. According to ripples website, XRP consistently handles 1,500 transactions per second. That translates to almost 130 million per day.

I finally made some time to educate myself about DeFi. I already knew about DAI and thought that was a pretty complex project. Now that I learned about yearn.finance, I'm really scratching my head. I

The Digital Future is a 52 minute documentary about the technology in the future. The documentary focuses on mobility and energy and highlights blockchain as the fundamental technology to meet all

After almost a year, I thought let's have a look what's going on with Steem. I heard something about Justin Sun, stolen Steem and a hard fork, but didn't pay much attention. Apart from the full story of

I'd like to make an overview of the biggest crypto hacks that have happened from 2009 until today. Which hacks should be listed? Coincheck - USD 500m – 2018 Mt. Gox - USD 480m – 2014 Bitgrail – USD 195m

A question about IOTA. Wikipedia says that CURL was replaced by a form of Keccak - SHa3, because several weaknesses of CURL were published. The IOTA Website says that IOTA is using CURL as a hash function.

I'm analyzing the current supply of DASH. According to the original whitepaper, the first year had cumulative block rewards of 1'000'000 DASH per year. After that the reward were reduced by 7.14% every

I like this picture, but when reading the descriptions, I got very confused. I think some descriptions are misleading, so I updated the below table. Any feedback? Proof-of-Work Blocks with transactions

This is a great video that explains the main benefit of blockchain with a simple analogy. It misses many details, but it gets the advantages of a trust less environment and cutting the middleman. Have

When the first web shops were designed, there was no way to handle a onetime payment other than by credit card. Users still need to create a user account for each web shop and enter credit card details

This video explains the cause and effects of climate change. It’s a video I remembered from a long time ago, it’s already 11 years old! Still I think the video is valid and many are probably not aware

This is an excellent video to explain the tragedy of the commons: Buffalo.network is a protocol that uses the Ethereum Blockchain, AI, and IoT to solve tradegy of the commons. Their protocol is a good

As a consequence of global bad news, economic markets are turning red. Time for a new shadow portfolio for a selection of cryptocurrencies that could benefit from economic crisis. The following link shows

Verum Capital is currently exploring use cases that involve online pay-per-use business models for digital content and services. In this article we describe the potential that embedded browser payment

If you like Metamask for your Chrome browser, then have a look at this. Metamask is finally available for IOS and Android. I tried it and it works very well. I particularly like that you can synchronize

Here is an amazing new promotion video for Zero X, made by sandwich videos: Have a look at other ones too!

I've heard so much about them, I had to participate in one myself. One thing's for sure, IEO's are easier than ICO's for users. There was a weird error concerning the Captcha, but when I tried again, it

As always, Andreas Antonopoulos is making some very valid points in this video: Unstoppable code, The Difference Between Can't and Won't Enjoy and use the knowledge in your benefit.

I have been trying to read/post stories on eSteem on my iPhone7 in the last few months. It opens a white window and looks like it's constantly loading, but nothing else appears. I've logged in as I always