Ignacio HagopianinHackerNoon.comFirst Algorand Dutch Auction — Transparent?Last Wednesday 19th July was the first Algorand Foundation Dutch Auction, thus the first Algos were issued.7 min read·Jul 2, 2019--1--1
Ignacio HagopianinHackerNoon.comThe journey of running a Golang program over TorLast weekend I was interested in running an application over Tor to calculate some metrics regarding performance. Moreover, this program…1 min read·Apr 27, 2019----
Ignacio HagopianAlgochat — A Public Chat on Algorand TestNetToday Algorand TestNet became public, so now anyone can join and safely start getting hands dirty since this is the test chain.7 min read·Apr 16, 2019--3--3
Ignacio HagopianThe intuition behind Algorand Cryptographic SortitionAn essential part of Algorand consensus mechanism is the committee election. This election is somewhat counterintuitive since every user…1 min read·Mar 27, 2019--1--1
Ignacio HagopianinHackerNoon.comSimulating a fraud-proof blockchain networkSimulating systems is a powerful way of verifying calculations. Moreover, it can provide a faster way of computing desired outputs.1 min read·Feb 19, 2019--1--1
Ignacio HagopianinHackerNoon.comFraud proofs — Secure on-chain scalabilityBlockchains scalability problem it’s the most important one to solve. Failing to find good solutions could compromise real-world impact of…9 min read·Jan 30, 2019--1--1
Ignacio HagopianinTowards Data ScienceHashes power Probabilistic Data StructuresHash functions are used all over computer science but I want to mention they usefulness within probabilistic data structures and…7 min read·Jan 13, 2019--1--1
Ignacio HagopianinTowards Data ScienceImmutability in public/private blockchains — Part 2In part 1 we discussed what is immutability, in what circumstances is important, and how all this relates to blockchains.11 min read·Jan 4, 2019----
Ignacio HagopianinTowards Data ScienceImmutability in public/private blockchains — Part 1Immutability it’s a core value of a blockchain implementation. Before talking about technical things about this characteristic in public…4 min read·Dec 29, 2018--1--1