Note: Throughout this article by proposer we’ll refer to a node/entity in the network that is in charge at a specific time of proposing a new block, while validator(s) will designate the nodes/entities that are responsible with validating the block put forward by the proposer, thus effectively “vouching” for the…

Do All Roads Lead to Rome? Evaluating complex systems characteristics is always a hard task, because the more complex a system is, the more different it will be from any other system, even if their stated goal is the same. …

I’m currently testing the c-lightning BOLT implementation and, being an incipient technology and all that, the tooling around it is not yet that much developed. This means that, for the moment, we have to heavily rely on the cli interface. And the best part is that all the command outputs…

Marx might’ve not been the one that coined the term “capitalism”, but he’s for sure the one that popularised it by using it in his papers. And, although he’s (along with his pal, Engels) been widely using it, his framing of the capitalism was just as an intermediate step (a…

I keep seeing lots and lots of articles comparing the speed (in transactions per second) between the traditional financial system (but mostly card and mostly Visa) with one or the other of the cryptocurrencies. A recent infographic is the one here, where Visa is listed with 24kTPS vs Ripple’s 1.5kTPS…

When looking for a quick way to bootstrap a Hadoop cluster (maybe for learning or for some kind of staging / testing platform), Clusterdock is a good option. …

If you work long enough with docker containers (and only work from the command-line) you might be tired of typing docker ps -a to get a list of all containers or docker exec -ti container_name bash to log into the container named 'container_name'. If so, here are three functions/aliases that…

If you’re using geth to interface a public or private Ethereum blockchain, you migh’ve noticed that since geth 1.6 the possibility of compiling contracts using IPC/RPC has been removed. …

When it comes to 1click installs for a wide range of solutions (not only Apache Cassandra, but other relational and non-relational databases, application servers, appliances and whatnot), there are prebuilt solutions available for every major cloud platform out there (AWS, Azure and GCE). I haven’t looked (so I can’t talk…