"Disruptive technologies are like natural disasters. They come out of nowhere, are unstoppable, and leave a radically altered landscape in their wake. This is invariably bad news for the status quo

Take a moment to consider the crypto-landscape as we know it today. From a certain perspective, it is viewed as a security. From another, it is a speculative commodity that’s value lies in its very existence

One of the most often repeated FUD stories pertaining to Skycoin is the so-called fake kidnapping that took place in 2018. Fudders spread a rumour that the event was fabricated by the Skycoin team as a

It was a wild ride. A rollercoaster alternately fuelled by hype, FOMO, and extreme panic selling. Fortunes were made. ICO’s were launched for everything from in-game tokens to shares in woodlots and DNA

Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. This landlocked country has known it’s fair share of troubles over the last few decades. Hyperinflation, caused by poor economic policies and a land reform program which saw

It was a grand idea which came about at a time when the open source movement was gaining traction at an unprecedented rate. A massive online collaborative knowledge repository created and edited by the

Long suffering users of Apple's iPhone whom have hitherto been restricted to using Skycoin from their desktops only, can now let out a collective sigh of relief as the Skycoin iOS wallet is now available

It would require some remarkable skills to successfully argue against the statement that ease of use drives adoption. Whether it is a flaw in human nature, some form of deep intelligence evolving to a

Many many moons ago, when VAX was still fresh in the memory of early netizens, HTML spawned itself all over TCP/IP, produced an @ sign, populated a DNS system and for the first time in recorded history

Many inhabitants of the cryptoverse are in agreement that we are now officially in the post-bubble phase of the crypto revolution. That seemingly boundless limbo space where the hype has run out of steam,

At the height of ICO mania last year, how many stopped for a moment amid the FOMO chaos to ponder the implications of the Ethereum network grinding to a standstill every time an ICO is launched? Seriously.....

#Datamustfall. This is an actual hashtag from South Africa where the crippling data charges on the monopolised GSM network spurned so much outrage that it went all the way to a parliamentary review committee.

The only constant in life is change. This seemingly contradictory statement is easily substantiated by anyone who bothers to observe and study natural systems, through casual observation of human societal

If information is the commodity of the Internet age then privacy of information will be the commodity of the crypto age. It requires a special kind of ignorance to, in this day and age, be unaware of the

As we all wallow together in this very long, very deep accumulation cycle without the faintest sign of a bull in sight, perhaps a bit of welcome good news could help stave off the bear market blues. Skyfleet

Some months ago, after blogging about my Skycoin due diligence process, I declared that I was going to build a Skyminer. Well that didn't quite go as planned. Apart from the difficulty of sourcing the

I would love to see the statistics, if they exist, showing how many Skycoin hodlers were swayed to invest in the project after hearing Synth speak. I count myself among that demographic and strongly suspect

If you are a follower of this series in which I have been describing Skycoin one element at a time, it should by now be apparent that this project is fundamentally disruptive to a disruptive industry.

Welcome to the third instalment of my attempt to convey the complexity of Skycoin by breaking it down to component level and explaining the modules individually in lay terms. Today's subject... Coin Hours.

In part 1 of this series we examined the altruistic origins of Skycoin and how the developers set out to build a crypto ecosystem which holds true to Satoshi's original vision of a planetary distributed