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This year went by extremely fast. I learned a ton about starting a business, traveled around the world, built on new blockchain protocols, went and saw the future and came back to work on that which I believe shaped it in the present. There is the confluence of technology that is happening before our eyes, … Continue reading 2019

The next-generation of interoperable blockchain frameworks are being built upon: UTXO Transaction Models / State Transitions Proof-of-Authority (POA) / Proof-of-Stake(POS) Aura / Avalanche / Next-gen BFT Consensus Mechanisms SNARGS / Privacy Computation / Zero Knowledge Proofs Formally Verifiable Contracts and Agents Committees / Validator Sets / Routings / Attestations / Digital Jury Sharded sets of … Continue reading Interoperability Protocols

  The consensus from the 2018 hackathon was: there are a number of emerging blockchain technology platforms that are focused not on the protocol level but on creating additions to the base protocols these are workbenches, platform tooling, application environments There was a number of different hacks that were built over the weekend focusing on … Continue reading Consensus 2018 Hackathon

The means of developing replicated state machines. Decentralized and permissionless state replication as well as distributed application specific state replication are defining the next era of computing. Replication of data on distributed systems using leaders and workers, distributed micro-services and containers, peer-to-peer blockchain protocols, UTXOs, and digitally enforceable agreements and agents. Blockchain is the next … Continue reading Means of State Replication

There is a shift that is happening; it is rooted in the rapid expansion of decentralized cryptographic protocols. Public private key pairs are becoming common use for securing/storing digital assets, providing proof, determining truth. Where our data lives, who owns the data, and who can that change data are all questions that are being asked. … Continue reading 2018

Bitcoin is. The security of bitcoin as a protocol is derived from the quantum properties it uses as a secure informational state machine. The state transitions can be trusted based on pure mathematics. Elliptical Curves Digital Signatures Proof-of-Work Bitcoin as a system is the most powerful machine / computer in the world. It has already … Continue reading Thoughts on Bitcoin

Last week I attended the Wanxiang Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai. There were a number of sessions but one that really stuck with me was about potential scaling solutions for distributed consensus protocols. There is a concept of polyglot persistence which essentially means certain databases are meant for certain reasons. You have SQL database, noSQL … Continue reading Interoperable, Scalable Blockchain Protocols