There’s a wonderful feature of cover art in a recent Coindesk article from a work of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes, where the body of a king is composed of a mass of teeming bodies that gaze upwards at the face of their ruler. In his left hand is a sword and in his right
Seated on a tenuous perch atop the Flare network’s governance process is the Flare Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development and improvement of the network. It is constrained by five guiding principles: 1. No voting 2. No collateral 3. No oracle participation 4. The right to dissolve 5. Reporting The
Microsoft will soon release two different versions of their next-gen gaming console. The Xbox Series X ($499) is the full-powered 4k variant, and the Series S ($299) is the smaller, and less powerful, 1440p gaming box. Some publications have described the Xbox Series S as the budget variant of Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, but I feel
In a recent article featured in The Hill, Chris Larsen, co-founder and executive chairman of Ripple, suggested that the lack of clear regulatory clarity on cryptocurrencies and digital assets has put the United States in the position where it may lose its place as the global reserve currency once China tokenizes the Yuan. At the
During a talk on the BlockWorks Group YouTube channel, one of the more interesting topics of conversation between David Schwartz and Charlie Shrem were attack scenarios on both the XRP Ledger and Bitcoin. As XRP community members, we are frequently exposed to many of the detractions and limitations of the Bitcoin mining process, but we
Several months ago, Ripple posted an interview with Scott Chamberlain, an entrepreneurial fellow at the Australian National University College of Law. With funding through Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), ANU launched two new courses exploring legal issues with the application of blockchain technology like smart contracts and the integration of artificial intelligence into a
If you were at all curious as to the reasons for the abuse and neglect of Canadian seniors in long term care (LTC) facilities discussed in my previous post, The Royal Society of Canada released a report detailing what it feels are the deficiencies at the heart of the LTC crisis in Canada. The Royal
Forte provided a preview of some of their upcoming blockchain gaming features during a recent PayID developer conference. The preview illustrated some of the social monetization techniques developers could leverage within the Forte blockchain. These social aspects of the Forte monetization platform are already present in the gaming ecosystem, but they occur informally or without
PayID seems poised to solve a problem plaguing the cryptocurrency community since the very first Bitcoin was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto – the requirement to input the long and cumbersome sequence of numbers found with most cryptocurrency account addresses. These addresses resemble the strange sequence of numbers found in ipv6 addresses in length and complexity,
One of the most interesting features of the XRPL is the ability to send and hold digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum in the form of an IOU issued from popular exchanges like Bitstamp and Gatehub. A user isn’t holding actual BTC, ETH, etc., they’re holding a representation of that asset in the form of
