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What is Bitcoin maximalism and how do you score on the test?

Sep 02, 2022

Especially in a bear market, the mood of crypto investors is a bit off. Not infrequently, they fly at each other's throats. The Bitcoin maximalists, the hard core of Bitcoin defenders, go the furthest in this. But what is this Bitcoin maximalism anyway? Pete Rizzo proposed a test.

Fat protocol or fat apps - where will the money flow?

Aug 29, 2022

Is most of the value in the crypto world going to be in the base layer? In other words, the blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin? Or will the applications built on them be the winners? Think Uniswap or Aave. This is the main question many followers of crypto are asking.

Lido: Liquid staking on Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, and more

Aug 25, 2022

Staking is highly lucrative for many investors. Once the decision is made that a coin is a long-term investment staking adds value by creating additional yield. Since many retail investors lack the capital to run validator nodes most of them are dependent on staking pools or delegating their funds to a validator.

What is Flow?

Aug 25, 2022

Intended as a chain to enable gaming, Flow gained notoriety as the platform on which the successful NBA Top Shot went live: the video NFTs of NBA moments. The coin is also called FLOW.

What is Quant (QNT)?

Aug 25, 2022

Quant’s goal is to help further blockchain adoption among enterprises. It is a blockchain interoperability network and offers blockchain solutions built around their operating system called Overledger. It is the first operating system to be built for blockchains.

How censorship-proof is crypto? The war has begun

Aug 19, 2022

After the sanctions two weeks ago against mixer Tornado Cash, the discussion has flared up in the crypto world about how censorship-resistant crypto is. Addresses that were hit could no longer trade on Aave, for example. If it is already so easy to put down DeFi, what does this mean for the future of crypto? How censorship-proof are Ethereum and Bitcoin anyway?

What is Ripple (XRP) and how did it originate?

Aug 05, 2022

Ripple is a private software company founded in 2012 by Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen in California. The unlisted company was first called OpenCoin, but later renamed Ripple. The company began developing the Ripple protocol in 2012, which is a decentralised peer-to-peer (P2P) network that offers banks and other financial institutions a payment protocol. XRP is the native token of the Ripple network and is issued and developed only by the Ripple company. Ripple's open source protocol is already being used by banks and other institutions.

The Ethereum roadmap for the coming years

Aug 04, 2022

With the Ethereum Merge coming up, it's good to learn about the bigger picture: the roadmap. What are the next steps of Ethereum's upgrades and what is the end goal? In short: 100,000 transactions per second, without giving up decentralization. Founder Vitalik outlined the entire roadmap recently. Spoiler: every step rhymes with Merge....

The history of Ethereum hard forks

Jul 20, 2022

Ethereum is the first and most successful smart contract platform in the world. In order to maintain that status, its blockchain is under constant development for improvements and has changed over the years. If an upgrade is going to change the fundamentals of a blockchain it is usually implemented with a so-called hard fork.

Cardano vs. Ethereum – What is the difference between the two blockchains?

Jul 20, 2022

Cardano and Ethereum are two very different blockchains but they still get compared to each other. One reason for this is the fact that Cardano’s founder, Charles Hoskinson, also played a vital role in the birth of Ethereum. Another reason is that both blockchains are thriving because of their smart contract capabilities and a dApp ecosystem that is creating an enormous digital market of financial products and services that are built on blockchain technology.

Bitcoin as insurance against fiat failure

Jul 20, 2022

As Bitcoin simply carries on doing its thing - tick tock, another block - we humans keep trying to figure out what it actually IS. Is it the purest form of monetary energy, as Michael Saylor would have it? Is it the future of money? Or is it, in the view of Greg Foss, an insurance against the bankruptcy of governments? Let's focus on the latter view.

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