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Offline digital cash?
The question of using digital money in the event of a network outage comes up again and again. Here is an overview of the options and their pros and cons.
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The NFT Danger Zone
Susanna Petrin closes her NFT experiment with a dystopia of life after we destroyed our environment: Admiring our NFTs while strolling through the metaverse. I hope we can avert both.
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A business-driven blockchain evaluation flow chart
Yesterday, Rene Jan Veldwijk posted a blockchain decision flowchart he had previously used in a presentation.
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Blockchain in a nutshell
People often try to claim blockchain use cases without much deliberation. Here is a condensed, quotable version of «Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blockchain» and «Data lifecycle questions, not only for Blockchains».
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Web3 is just expensive P2P
Web3 claims to be the only way to save us from commercial entities defining what we can see and what not. Yet, it does exactly this: It results in commercialized entities defining what we can see and what not.
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chrony NTS certificate reload
The chrony NTS daemon has no way to automatically reload its NTS certificate. A quick hack fixes this.
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blockchain
Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, Web3 and NFT are the talk of the town. Almost everyone has an opinion, but hardly anyone understands the foundations or relationships. The goal of this series, whose first part you are currently reading, is to provide a structured presentation of promises, the technology behind, and the reality. Using everyday analogies…
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Data lifecycle questions, not only for Blockchains
In any data-centric applications, understanding the data lifecycle (also as part of the product lifecycle) is important, especially when trust or traceability are also goals. If Blockchain should play a role, then the requirements associated with the data lifecycle can even become a decisive factor: Either adapt the data model or the processes, or, if…
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Solana Blockchain: Proof of History analogies
Here are some attempts to compare Proof of History (PoH), as used by the Solana blockchain, with Proof of Work (PoW). Comparisons to real-world activities, such as dice rolling or outer-space rubber-stamp throwing are also included.
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Bitcoin Block Timing Statistics
Bitcoin wants to be a universal payment means, providing rapid transactions. Here is an analysis on the blockchain timing, based on their timestamps.