#decentralization

NEAR Co-Founder: Bitcoin’s Level of Security Isn’t Necessary for Most Blockchain Use Cases NEAR Co-Founder: Bitcoin’s Level of Security Isn’t Necessary for Most Blockchain Use Cases

Now a world-class developer living in Silicon Valley, NEAR co-founder Alexander Skidanov went a long way from a young programming-inclined student from Izhevsk, Russia.

Voice Social Media App Goes Live, Dan Larimer Shares Glimpse of New World Order Voice Social Media App Goes Live, Dan Larimer Shares Glimpse of New World Order

Block.one, the company behind EOS project, has finally launched the Voice social network on July 4, the platform’s CEO Salah Zalatimo announced.

Blockstack’s Muneeb Ali: Bitcoin as the Most Secure Blockchain Will Be the Best Foundational Layer for Web 3.0 Blockstack’s Muneeb Ali: Bitcoin as the Most Secure Blockchain Will Be the Best Foundational Layer for Web 3.0

The upcoming launch of Stacks 2.0, the major protocol release that will allow blockchain developers and miners to participate in the deployment of an innovative new consensus mechanism, dubbed Proof of Transfer (PoX), is arguably the biggest milestone so far for the New York-based Blockstack.

How Binance Hides Its Legal Structure From Users and Regulators How Binance Hides Its Legal Structure From Users and Regulators

Binance exchange took off in 2017. In a few months’ time, it became one of the leading platforms by trading volume. By now, it’s got a multitude of new services and clients all over the world.

Emin Gün Sirer Reveals Fundamentals of a Perfect Blockchain. PoW Mining Is Not Included Emin Gün Sirer Reveals Fundamentals of a Perfect Blockchain. PoW Mining Is Not Included

Emin Gün Sirer, associate professor of computer science at Cornell University and an early proponent of Bitcoin, is known as the creator of several important scaling solutions, including Bitcoin-NG.

Mastodon Review: Federation of Bubbles Mastodon Review: Federation of Bubbles

Twitter is 14 years old. And many people start seeing it for an enfant terrible it is. Some see the purple hair and pronouns in the bio, others see trolls and racists everywhere. And this makes people mad.

NewTON Blockchain Launched Test Network, Building Upon TON’s Original Source Code NewTON Blockchain Launched Test Network, Building Upon TON’s Original Source Code

A group of 30 independent developers launched the test network for NewTON Blockchain, one of the projects aiming to continue the cause of Telegram’s TON project after the conflict with the SEC. One of the developers behind NewTON, Anatoly, shared some details about the project with ForkLog.

TON Developers Pushed Final Code Updates, Now It’s Up to Community TON Developers Pushed Final Code Updates, Now It’s Up to Community

Telegram Open Network developers have rolled out a few final updates to the source code and will no longer actively participate in the project. The announcements came on May 24th via TON’s test portal page.

Searching for Search Engine and Post-Google Dream Searching for Search Engine and Post-Google Dream

Numbers strongly suggest that for the last several years people have been doing a lot of googling and really not much of binging, yahooing, and even baiduing in comparison. When it comes to certain alternative solutions like DuckDuckGo, there’s even more ground to gain. And there are reasons to want these leftfield solutions gaining ground, […]

After Telegram’s Lost Battle with SEC, TON Launched Now Under Slightly Different Name After Telegram’s Lost Battle with SEC, TON Launched Now Under Slightly Different Name

TON developers, major PoS validators, and community enthusiasts have announced the launch of Free TON powered by the native token TON Crystal in a declaration.

Extra Surveillance May Stay After the Corona-crisis Is Gone, But Privacy Can Still Be Protected Extra Surveillance May Stay After the Corona-crisis Is Gone, But Privacy Can Still Be Protected

In his online presentation, Stepan Gershuni, Bitcoin evangelist and the CEO of Credentia, talked about real technologies that may help avert a dystopian privacy crisis. This is the adaptation of the Russian-language talk from ForkLog’s Digital Middle Ages online conference.

Building Decentralized Social Networks of Tomorrow Building Decentralized Social Networks of Tomorrow

Concluding the series of articles about the shortcomings of DPoS and LPoS algorithms, Vladimir Popov talked about the decentralized social networks and the internet of the future where websites can’t be shut down and access to information can’t be restricted. This is an adaptation of the original Russian-language article Vladimir wrote exclusively for ForkLog.

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