This is my first post that was co-written by Chat-GPT. I’ve marked with an asterisk sections that were largely AI generated with some editing by me. Interested in hearing what people think! Want to stop scammers and hackers from repeatedly stealing funds? Want to give funds to someone with confidence they’ll pay you back? WantContinue reading “Why Self-Sovereign Identity fixes everything (and why we need to be careful)”
Category Archives: General
Charles Hoskinson FT Interview
Charles Hoskinson did an interview recently with Jemima Kelly of the Financial Times. At first I thought it was a rather hostile interviewer and very good calm responses from Charles. However on a second viewing I could see areas where the reporter wasn’t getting a direct answer to their questions and hence why they mightContinue reading “Charles Hoskinson FT Interview”
NFT projects and Trust – an epic Twitter space discussion
I started writing this as one of those long twitter threads but decided to just put it into a blog post.. I’m only 55% of the way through this epic Twitter space with @monad_alexander , @wabdoteth and @ponziratti. But a lot has been covered so I wanted to share my thoughts. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpKkgMELlVKj 1. Firstly IContinue reading “NFT projects and Trust – an epic Twitter space discussion”
Algorand’s TPS
In this article I dive deeper into what’s driving Algorand’s TPS and what Cardano can learn from it. But lets start by first by explaining TPS better. TPS is about transaction volume not speed Here is a chart generated through Coin Metrics A simpletons interpretation of this chart would be “Oh this shows Algorand isContinue reading “Algorand’s TPS”
Time is ripe to formulate a vision for Defi 2.0
Terra Luna collapse, Nomad bridge hack, Solana wallets hack… decentralized finance aka DeFi, has not put its best foot forward lately. All these issues are just part of a long line of hacks, scams, and collapses that have occurred in crypto over the years (see Crypto’s Dirty Little Secret). The truth is that crypto encouragesContinue reading “Time is ripe to formulate a vision for Defi 2.0”
A response to Justin Bons
I was just about to go to bed on a Sunday night when I saw Justin Bon’s long-awaited, deeply researched analysis of Cardano. I kid. I think he had at most a week to research it and I’m going to have to guess he was doing it in his spare time as there was aContinue reading “A response to Justin Bons”
Cardano “Vasil” hardfork on-track for June
In the same week we found out about the delay to Ethereum’s upgrade known as the “merge”, which was expected to be in June but is now some tbd months later, we found out the status of another June hardfork – this time on Cardano. And unlike Ethereum’s upgrade, Cardano’s “Vasil” upgrade is on trackContinue reading “Cardano “Vasil” hardfork on-track for June”
Tons of Cardano News
There’s been an absolute riot of Cardano news lately that I thought it about time I made a blog post to comment on them all. I’ll start with the less technical news then gradually more on to the deeper end of the pool. Minswap Drama You may remember Minswap as “that DEX that caused concurrencyContinue reading “Tons of Cardano News”
Is Cardano undervalued?
As I write this in the first week of spring, there is much hand wringing amongst the Cardano community over what is going to on with the price. For those of you reading this in the future, welcome time-traveler, we hope you look back with amusement over the days when Cardano was at 0.86 dollars,Continue reading “Is Cardano undervalued?”
Sundae Status
This is a copy / paste of a discord conversation between Cobie and SundaeSwap on the Discord server for the benefit of the Reddit community. I shall provide my own summary at the end in the next day or two once I’m back from travelling. Cobie: hii, so i read the post but was confusedContinue reading “Sundae Status”
Cardano 360 June Update
Well it’s that time again my fellow Ada-mantium handed Cardanites! And with each passing month we get tantalizingly close to the launch of Goguen! I know you’re all busy and want to know the key points from todays event, so let’s get down to it. Alonzo Update Command Line Interface (CLI) up and running toContinue reading “Cardano 360 June Update”