It all boils down to this: “You want to be rich? We do Blockchain. You will be rich! Everyone will be rich! … Now give us your money.

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what are you still doing here? I AM RICH! fuck this stupid project and those idiots who gave me my money.”

Blockchain — the tragedy of complexity and a bad reputation

It’s always a hard long way to the top if your reputation is somewhat dirty. And this is the case with Blockchain.

Blockchain has quite an interesting history. First, there was Bitcoin — the digital…

airproof: blockchain security for your stay at a private rental.

Absolutely agreed. We are in the midst of creating an app that uses op_return timestamps, and there are major trade-offs to consider: use intermediaries like opentimestamp? How to achieve the fastest timestamp? Consolidate the timestamps (as you propose) or get everything separated, which leads to high costs?

How are you planning on doing this — who is the “oracle” that tells the smart contract? You mention above that the smart contract can be checked by the autority for compliance, but as you say, the compliance itself depends upon this external information. Will this be stored in a separate database? Who is running that?