After The Social Web, Here Comes The Trust Web | TechCrunch
To fully understand the blockchain concept and the benefits of cryptography in computer science, we need to first understand the concept of “decentralized consensus,” a key tenet of the crypto-based...
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The core underlying idea revolves around a “two-way-pegging” mechanism, where a “parent chain” (usually Bitcoin) and a “sidechain” share a common currency by making a unit of one convertible into a...
View ArticleFactom Outlines Record-Keeping Network That Utilises Bitcoin’s Blockchain
Factom, however, proposes a new architecture that exists outside of the bitcoin network, but relies on the digital currency’s globally distributed computing power to keep cryptographically secured...
View ArticleIdentity and Your Phone: Civic
I’ve been struggling with the concept of identity in distributed trust/consensus networks. All the options seem to come down to either a) putting some part of your credentials on someone else’s server...
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