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Introducing Agentic Postgres, the Database for AI Agents

A lone voice in orbit reflects on Spacecoin, star ownership, and the emotional cost of a world governed by smart contracts.

Can You Own a Star?

A philosophical journey through Ethereum—exploring code, consensus, and decentralization as metaphysical, ethical, and aesthetic forces. 

Ethereum Is More Than Crypto. It’s a Machine for Making Worlds

Lamina1 is a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to empower the Open Metaverse and the founders just released their Whitepaper... 

Lamina1: The Foundation of the Open Metaverse

What does graph have to do with machine learning, and data science? A lot, actually, and it goes both ways.

Graph Learning News Review: Hot-Topic Facts of Spring 2021 to Take into Account

Cryptocurrencies are prone to many different types of attack. As Bitcoin is over 11 years on the track, we know and were facing many different attempts on breaking its security. One of them is network partition attack.


But what about the Proof-of-Stake algorithms? Have they solved some of the vulnerabilities of Bitcoin and its Proof-of-Work algorithm?

A Technical Q&A on Network Partition Attacks

In the interview I made last year, I asked a leading cryptocurrency expert Andreas M. Antonopoulos, about whether someone could solve the so-called Blockchain Trilemma – scalability and security without sacrificing
decentralization in the future. 

Examining The Blockchain Trilemma 

Written by Dr. Vincent Gramoli (Data61-CSIRO, University of Sydney)

Are Bitcoin And Ethereum As Secure As You Think?

Blockchains have unlocked a new design space for computing with the advent of trustless computing. In a world of increasing centralization (a la, the Big Four), increasing control and exploitation (a la, Facebook), and increasing censorship (a la, the State). The promise of a decentralized, self sovereign, censorship resistant protocol is exactly what the world wants/needs. You need not look any further than the ICO boom that seeded 2000+ new projects from in the span of 18 months to see there is a desire to build a new internet, devoid of the systemic challenges we are faced with today.

Understanding Tradeoffs: Decentralization vs. Usability

One of the primary drivers behind Ethereum‘s 500x returns over the last few years has been the so-called “Fat Protocols” thesis, initially <a href="http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols" target="_blank">put forth by Joel Monegro in his 2016 article</a>. In it, Monegro argued that while the previous internet stack resulted in most of the wealth being captured at the application level (Facebook, Amazon, etc), the blockchain stack will see most of the wealth captured on the protocol level (Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc).

In defense of Ethereum and its fatness: why I’m still bullish on ETH

Part 1: The (dis)utility token. What’s wrong with the popular payment token? My previous post <a href="https://hackernoon.com/capturing-crypto-value-a-guide-to-tokenisation-strategies-f17c72df4e5e" target="_blank">here</a>.

Capturing crypto value: a guide to tokenization strategies…Part 2/3

Evaluating crypto networks is challenging. The “<a href="http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols" target="_blank">fat protocol</a>” thesis, for example, represents an attempt to identify the features that will drive the value of crypto protocols. Put forward by Union Square Ventures’ Joel Monegro in 2016, the thesis— which has captured the imagination of many Silicon Valley investors — posits that the value of blockchains will concentrate at the protocol layer. Whereas in the case of the protocols underlying the Internet (such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or SMTP) value has been captured at the application level, the thesis states that the value of blockchains will be distributed along the protocol layer. Monegro argues that whereas the Internet is composed of “thin protocols” and “fat applications,” the inverse relationship holds in blockchains — blockchains will consist of “fat protocols” and “thin applications“ (see Figure 1).

What Makes Crypto Protocols Valuable?

The whole world is going through the blockchain revolution. But wait…is this really what we dreamed of? Present transaction rates of <a href="https://altcointoday.com/bitcoin-ethereum-vs-visa-paypal-transactions-per-second/" target="_blank">bitcoin and ethereum</a> are so low that we can’t imagine to support even a single <a href="https://qz.com/1145833/cryptokitties-is-causing-ethereum-network-congestion/" target="_blank">game</a>, forget about the financial transactions, IOT etc.

11 sidechain projects every blockchain developer should know about

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) funding for startups has exceeded the more traditional venture funding, has leveled the playing field and is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs. Now anyone, anywhere in the world with the idea that people believe in can fund their business with a crowdsale.

24 Steps To Make Your Cryptocurrency Marketing Campaign A Success

There are a lot of good reasons to have a standalone native mobile app for your <a href="https://medium.com/@ethereumproject" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="d626b3859bc9" data-action-value="d626b3859bc9" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">ethereum</a> token/smart contract/DApp (Decentralized App):

The Future of Native Mobile Apps on Blockchain — What They Should Look Like, and How to Build One…

On almost every dimension, Bitcoin is worse than it’s centralized counterparts like Paypal or Chase.

Why Is Bitcoin Valuable?

Today’s most popular protocols like ethereum and bitcoin are running into serious bottlenecks, the most serious of all being scalability. Transactions fees are at all time highs, with bitcoin averaging around <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html" target="_blank">$30</a> per transaction and ethereum averaging <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-transactionfees.html" target="_blank">$3</a>. To develop protocols that scale is a serious goal for the industry, and the protocol that nails it first will most likely gain serious advantages in terms of user base. Once this happens, consolidation will start. Businesses will start implementing <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> into their business models, and network effects will start to develop. Once these successful blockchains have developed their moats, there will be a serious incentive problem that we will all have to reckon with; why would developers (or more specifically, early token holders with governance klout) continue to improve scalability?

The misaligned incentives of protocol developers

Joel Monegro’s <a href="http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols" target="_blank">fat protocol thesis</a> is one of the <a href="https://taylorpearson.me/crypto/" target="_blank">most important ideas for understanding cryptocurrency</a>.

Will Cryptocurrency Protocols Be Fat or Thin?

Having had more than 1,800 meals delivered at my doorstep over the last 5 years I realized something was missing in the uberised food delivery industry.

How a single feature could finally hook you on UberEats and Postmates

I was working on a <a href="http://portal.minimum.apievangelist.com/" target="_blank">forkable definition of my API portal</a> and I wanted to evolve the icons that I usually use as part of my API storytelling. I primarily use the <a href="http://api.thenounproject.com/" target="_blank">Noun Project API</a>, to associate simple black and white icons which represent the stories I tell, companies I showcase, and topics I cover. One area I find the Noun Project deficient is when it comes to icons for specific technologies, so while working on my project I wanted to find a new source. I fired up the Googles and got to work.

A New API Programming Language SDK Icon Set

“The silence of our friend proves nothing,” said the reporter. “Perhaps he has fainted or is wounded, and unable to reply directly, so we will not despair.”

The engineer, the meshes of the net having given way

All inland seas and the gulfs of those seas, are made by rivers which flow into the sea.

Physical Geography

What stands behind Amazon returns? How to efficiently handle product reversals? Explore the streamlined product return policy of the leading e-commerce platform

The Workable Approach Behind Amazon Returns

3/11/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!

The Noonification: I Give Up on Foldable Phones (3/11/2023)

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Introducing Agentic Postgres, the Database for AI Agents

Can You Own a Star?

Ethereum Is More Than Crypto. It’s a Machine for Making Worlds

Lamina1: The Foundation of the Open Metaverse

Graph Learning News Review: Hot-Topic Facts of Spring 2021 to Take into Account

A Technical Q&A on Network Partition Attacks

Examining The Blockchain Trilemma

Are Bitcoin And Ethereum As Secure As You Think?

Understanding Tradeoffs: Decentralization vs. Usability

In defense of Ethereum and its fatness: why I’m still bullish on ETH

Capturing crypto value: a guide to tokenization strategies…Part 2/3

What Makes Crypto Protocols Valuable?

11 sidechain projects every blockchain developer should know about

24 Steps To Make Your Cryptocurrency Marketing Campaign A Success

The Future of Native Mobile Apps on Blockchain — What They Should Look Like, and How to Build One…

Why Is Bitcoin Valuable?

The misaligned incentives of protocol developers

Will Cryptocurrency Protocols Be Fat or Thin?

How a single feature could finally hook you on UberEats and Postmates

A New API Programming Language SDK Icon Set

The engineer, the meshes of the net having given way

Physical Geography

The Workable Approach Behind Amazon Returns

The Noonification: I Give Up on Foldable Phones (3/11/2023)

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