Throughout history, there have various iterations of sound money, from the Rai stones of the Yap islands to the gold…
Author: Brian Curran
Brian Curran
Blockchain writer, web developer, and content creator. An avid supporter of the decentralized Internet and the future development of cryptocurrency platforms. Contact brian@blockonomi.com
Consensus algorithms are paramount to verifying the authenticity of distributed blockchain platforms and are the process of building agreement among…
IPFS stands for Interplanetary File System and it is an open-source, peer-to-peer distributed hypermedia protocol that aims to function as…
Blockchain networks, specifically public blockchains, exist as decentralized networks that need to maintain byzantine fault tolerance to retain authenticity. This…
Consensus models are a primary component of distributed blockchain systems and definitely one of the most important to their functionality.…
Merkle Trees are a fundamental component of blockchains that underpin their functionality. They allow for efficient and secure verification of…
Privacy of transactions is an integral component of cryptocurrencies and one of the most important for many users. While Bitcoin…
The rise of globalization and the digital economy as a result of the connectivity that the Internet affords has created…
Ontology is a next-generation, public, multi-chain platform that aims to provide a single, decentralized trust ecosystem through utilizing a decoupled…
Bitcoin’s arrival into the mainstream was accompanied by massive evaluations of altcoins, a short-lived ICO craze, and many misunderstandings about…
Polkadot is a multi-chain framework platform — similar to Cosmos — designed to facilitate interoperability and scalability of blockchains that…
The foreign exchange market (forex) for international currencies is the largest and most liquid market in the world. According to…
As the scaling debate in cryptocurrencies continues, some potential solutions have actually been in development for quite some time now.…
A common thread among all emergent technologies is that there numerous misconceptions, general confusion, and many times, outright dismissiveness of…
Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency released in 2009 as open-source software. It is a digital currency predicated on cryptographically secure…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been making waves over the last several months following the surge in platforms and products offering…
The Internet’s innate resilience to centralized information monopolies became evident in the mid-to-late 2000s as the failure of the merged…
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, that have fixed supplies, are deflationary by the format they create their native tokens in and offer…
One of the primary convictions of DeFi and the crypto community is to grant broader financial access to many of…
Game theory is highly relevant to cryptocurrencies and is often an overlooked aspect of platforms, despite playing a vital role…
Coinbase’s foray into ‘Staking as a Service’ via their Coinbase Custody arm grabbed headlines across the cryptocurrency landscape when launched.…
