I just watched a presentation on computer security where the speaker showed off a hack that I didn’t even know was possible. His example and explanation were eye opening. The additional related examples were helpful, but they didn’t have the same impact. We don’t really remember what we read. …

Software platforms are great businesses. The more dominant your platform becomes, the greater the virtuous cycle. If everyone is building on iOS and Android but not Windows Mobile, that is a massive leg up for Apple and Google and a very difficult hurdle for Microsoft. If blockchain technology ends up…

What are we actually saying when we label someone as confident? What about overconfident? If a startup founder pours her life into her startup for years without any signs of success, does that mean she is misunderstanding her odds of succeeding? If someone still eats meat, does that mean they…

Providing a good user experience is fundamental to building good products. This is one of the most important aspects that drive user adoption and determine the products that people love. At Bloom, we aim to create amazing user experiences that satisfy the end-user (you)! While it’s not obvious at first…

While developing the Bloom dApp, we frequently stumble across noteworthy design considerations of the platforms we are building on. …

At the conclusion of our token sale tomorrow, we’re releasing the Phase 1 main net dApp for Bloom. In celebration of this event, we’ve published our Phase 1 contracts on GitHub today! Bloom is a community first project. We’re thrilled to open source our contracts for public review and discussion…

Integrating with smart contracts can be tough. In particular, solidity doesn’t really have runtime errors with descriptive messages, so a lot of failed transactions just fail with the generic message invalid opcode. If it is painful to write tests, you are probably going to write fewer. Test coverage is an…

Bloom is in a very exciting phase right now! There is a lot of community interest in the roadmap we have laid out, we are working with lenders on our platform, our Slack is growing like crazy, and our token sale is just around the corner. We are pleased to…