building smart contracts in c# stratis – they have their own platform first they built a compiler in c# that compiles down to solidity first so instead they built a smart contracts platform thats .net from the ground up – they have a coin – they try to make it Read more…
Crypto Asset Convergence This was a really good talk – A company called New Alchemy from Seattle 4 categories of crypto currencies exist to be money utility tokens exist to access a network of value smart contracts exist to be a global compting network security tokens exist to confer ownership Read more…
Keynote Panel: what does the future hold for blockchain technology I started watching a talk about investing in ICOs and moved over to the panel on blockchain in the future – there were lots of ideas on the uses of the technology – breaking down borders, accessible transfers of verified Read more…
build your own blockchain application in less than an hour Edward Ciggaar developer advocate IBM I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while now :D starting with an example of a game (coffee with blockchain) the hyperledger platform was explained – a map was shown on the screen Read more…
Interesting talk about the process of developing a blockchain app – talking about integrations with businesses legacy systems to enable the transition to the new platforms. A lot of companies using blockchain as a direct replacement for a database. The development process for building theses distributed apps is just a Read more…
This panel is very geeky! It’s awesome! right now the guys (developers) are discussing the impacts of the GDPR on their apps (various platforms using blockchain, some containing personal data, some not) there is one theme here: developers arent lawyers. Each dev has its own interperatation of the rules and Read more…
Tracking cryptocoin price changes can become difficult when you have more than a couple of coins. Fortunately there are a few altcoin exchanges and apps out there which can help you. I’ll do a breakdown of some of the apps I use. Blockfolio Blockfolio has a ton of data available, Read more…
There are a couple of things you need for mining monero in osx using xmring: 1) A monero wallet (get one from mymonero.com) 2) Homebrew (brew.sh) mining monero in osx using xmring: dependencies You have to make sure you have homebrew installed (so that you can install the xmrig dependencies), Read more…
Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine: Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash) Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org) Bitcoin Read more…