Interview with Romano, lead developer of Viacoin
As the crypto industry matures, a large number of new cryptocurrencies are appearing in the market. Sometimes diamonds in the rough are easy to miss. One of those diamonds that you may not have yet heard about is Viacoin, which has been on the market for about 3 years and is been showing why they are a great option among others: an incredible speed (24 seconds per block!!!), simplicity on design, anonymity, low fees and good security makes them a good competitor and a solid coin to invest in.
Recently, we had a little, but excellent chat with Romano, the lead developer of Viacoin. He explained to us what makes Viacoin a great choice for investors and cryptofans. Here’s what we got!
– What’s your name and role at Viacoin?
R: I am Romano and I am the lead developer of Viacoin.
- This is a question for those people that aren’t familiar with this coin: What is Viacoin and what is your team trying to do?
R: Viacoin is a cryptocurrency created in 2014 and designed to solve many of the issues being faced by many projects in the space today, mainly performance, scaling, reliability, mining centralization. We aim to create the most comprehensive and future-proof crypto ecosystem, that will power the next wave of use cases in the crypto space, from instant cross-chain exchanges, through unbeatable anonymity to ICO issuance and smart contract validation.
- News broke recently that you completed an Atomic swap with lite coin. Can you give us any info on that?
R: We are very proud of our recently implemented Atomic Swaps (AS) solution. AS builds upon the already implemented Lightning Network solution on Viacoin, and serves as a way to instantly and securely exchange between different crypto currencies without any 3rd party involvement. With AS, any two individuals can agree on an exchange rate (usually spot market price) between two different currencies (say Litecoin and Decred) and use the Viacoin infrastructure to perform the trade in a trustless, decentralized and secure fashion. The great thing about using Viacoin for said exchange is the ultra low fees offered by the Viacoin network as well as the near instant block confirmation times (24s, 25x faster than Bitcoin). Right now we are performing on-chain swaps, similar to Litecoin and Decred.
We believe that this will become a very major area of focus for Crypto in 2018, with both centralized exchanges being subject to close inspection and scrutiny as well as financial privacy becoming a matter of growing urgency. We are essentially building the infrastructure that the next generation of crypto users will come to need very soon.
- What’s next for Viacoin?
R: The Viacoin team is very active and has several other developments in the works. On top of the aforementioned AS, we are working on performance improvements, additional wallets (especially mobile ones), a special GUI wallet for AS transactions, native and Ethereum-based smart contracts as well as our own 3rd asset trading, exchange and ICO issuance powered by a customized Colored-Coins protocol. We aim to live up to our tagline of Viacoin being "The future of crypto-currency".
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