On January 3rd, 2009, right after the peak of the Global Financial Crisis that originated from the mortgage derivatives, the heart of the Bitcoin network started to pump. …

My next-door neighbor had 2 of his 3 cars stolen in 2 nights. Yes, it’s a true story. On Wednesday night someone broke into his business van, hoping to find valuables, and found the key to his truck. So, he took the truck with $15,000 worth of tools in it…

I have been a Senior Software Engineer with a company in the Automotive industry for 6 years. At first, I loved writing software for cars, felt that it touches millions, improving in a way their quality of life. Then slowly but steadily, I started spending more and more time on…

These days the Twitter space has been buzzing about the chain activity on Cardano. But after a month of relentless FUD this is barely a relief. I’ll summarize the past month’s activity, since SundaeSwap’s DEX was launched on Jan 20th. That alone, caused a tremendous spike in volume on the…

As more blockchain projects emerge, and more applications are being built on top of them, a necessity for migration sometimes emerges. Either because a new blockchain offers advantages over the one you started with, or the community seems more aligned to your personal ideology, you might find yourself wanting to…

I see this title all over the media and I thought to take a stab at it. What does it mean? How can a project die? Technically it would mean that no one is running the mining or validation software to keep adding blocks to the blockchain. In that case…

When I was a monk on Mt. Athos, Greece, I was involved in a religious dispute. The monastery was divided into two camps, let’s call them A and B. As I was a newcomer, and because I didn’t deem the issue that important, I tried to keep a neutral stance…

I appreciate your response, I am a firm believer that society moves forward through dialogue, when ideas clash. BTC is just the opening idea, the proof that trust between entities can be established without a 3rd party. …

After the cryptocurrency market has seen a large outflow of capital the last weeks, the sentiment of a large percentage of the population has changed. Euphoria has been replaced by pessimism. I prefer we keep a level head. No over-excitement, and no disappointment. This volatility was expected. The total market…