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Blockchain frees itself from bullshit

In the 2017/18 Crypto Hype there were many PoCs and product ideas, where I asked myself why they were realized with blockchain. If the word blockchain had been replaced by database in the projects, the ideas would still have made sense and would have been much…

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Is it a blockchain or is it a DLT?

In various discussions I often hear people saying “But that’s not blockchain! That’s DLT!”. This sounds like blockchain and DLT would be two totally different things, while in fact, blockchain is a specific implementation of a DLT. What most people actually mean is…

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Blockchain vs. Database

When should I use blockchain and when a database?

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Marketing usecase based on blockchain

Liverpool gets its own currency

The company colu from Tel Aviv has generated a local digital currency for Liverpool. Local currencies are not new. Many municipalities use some kind of local coupons to buy in the…

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A generic “Claim and Endorse” Contract

Did you already endorse someone at LinkedIn? For instance, someone claims that he knows C++ and you endorse this claim because you know it’s true.

A large number of processes can be modelled in this way:

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Rebuilding Ripple on Ethereum

Ripple is a P2P payment network with an integrated foreign exchange market. It supports any possible currency. In it’s core it is based on a public distributed ledger containing liabilities between individuals and organisations ( IOUs). The network depends on the trust…

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Ethereum Usecase: Identity Management (Take 2)

Identity verification is one of the hottest usecases for the blockchain. I already wrote on this topic few months ago with the idea of a fictive government binding hashed identity data to citizen’s ethereum address.

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Steem — community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards

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Ethereum Usecase: Online Identitätsprüfung

Die Identitätsprüfung des Kunden bei Onlinegeschäften ist in der Regel ein Prozess…

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Ethereum — der neue große Rivale des Bitcoin

Das Thema Ethereum ist in der deutschen Mainstream-Presse angekommen. In dem Artikel “Das ist der neue große Rivale des Bitcoin“ schreibt Die Welt:

Der Bitcoin war das Nonplusultra, wenn es um digitales Geld ging. Der…
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