Types of Bitcoin users

By Lumai Mubanga. [email protected] There are different conception regarding the use, mining and ownership of bitcoins just as there are different ideas of bitcoin users. This article will discuss the types of general bitcoin users be it millennials or old folks, and the type of services attached to each type. It is noteworthy to state […]

Proof of work and desire for decentralization

Although proof of work protocol had served the blockchain community faithfully since its inception with bitcoin, its inability to scale and its support for centralization were some of the identified weaknesses. How is the proof of work protocol perceived as supporting centralization?

Can blockchain be applied to control land authorities

Many backward countries face major challenges in terms of land resources. Without proper management, distribution, and accounting of operations, millions of hectares of land are widely publicized.

Self-sovereign identity and identity management

Today, there are three major problems with how we transact online today: users have low privacy, fraud prevention efforts cost businesses a lot of money, and password-based authentication leads to frequent data breaches. Will the blockchain-based self-sovereign Identity rectify these?

Increasing Ethereum companies – A sign of world wide acceptance?

Much like any other technological development, the crypto space has seen an explosion in the number of companies that have sprang up to directly or indirectly support the ecosystem.

Blockchain indexing – a marvelous feat!

The graph has immerged as that blockchain “search engine” equivalent to google… it is a protocol developed to specifically index and make queries on blockchain data. As a blockchain user, you have much to explore and learn about the Graph.

The lifecycle of an ICO

Like any undertaking, ICOs undergo several stages leading to the launch of a token or project. However, it must be acknowledged that there’s a lot of learning still going on in the “tokenomics” world.

The blockchain technology on E-learning

It is a great opportunity for organizations doing E-learning to protect, secure and authenticate the digital certificates, diplomas of their e-learners with no possibility of the digital certificates to be fakes or rendered false.

Blockchain is not a magic bullet for all applications. (Part 2)

In part one, we stated that blockchain is not the answer or magic bullet for any challenge or problem. This article considers three more.

MakerDAO, a decentralized finance or Defi application. is it for you?

Decentralized finance has immerged as an offshoot from the blockchain. Decentralized finance was probably unknown when bitcoin was first launched. However, it has become prominent with the surge of Ethereum network. What is it all about and is it one of those crypto “circuits” you can explore?