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Decred

Decred employs an innovative hybrid Proof-of-Work/Proof-of-Stake system that layers security and carefully aligns incentives.

Blockchain governance - Part 5

Blockchain governance - Part 5

Blockchain security is paramount to implement good governance otherwise stakeholders’ decisions could be reverted. A secure protocol depends on adequate blockchain architecture, secure hashing functions and cryptographic primitives, transparency, privacy and decision-making mechanisms.

Blockchain governance - Part 4

Blockchain governance - Part 4

Decred is an open, progressive, and self-funding cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain. Decred is bound by a set of rules, which include guiding principles

Blockchain governance - Part 3

Blockchain governance - Part 3

Blockchain architectures can be categorised regarding the openness of transaction validation (validate/commit) and the openness of participation (read/write) in the transactions (European Commission, 2019).

Blockchain governance - Part 2

Blockchain governance - Part 2

In the last decades researchers have been trying to digitally replicate the use and exchange values1 of money, as well as its currency properties: fungibility, scarcity, divisibility, transferability and durability (Menger, 2009).

Blockchain governance - Part 1

Blockchain governance - Part 1

The Chancellor will decide within weeks whether to pump billions more into the economy as evidence mounts that the £37 billion part-nationalisation last year has failed to keep credit flowing - This is why I Decred

Utility of cryptoassets

Utility of cryptoassets

We know that countless scams involving Bitcoins and other currencies have been developed, that several ponzi schemes promised 500% return in six months, that some companies have already claimed that were hacked to justify the disappearance of investor resources, that most ICOs

The Federal Reserve: A Blatantly Rigged Game

The Federal Reserve: A Blatantly Rigged Game

Many of us in the cryptocurrency space have been waiting for the next major market contraction for several years, and it has finally arrived, in spectacular fashion. COVID-19 and government response to it are disrupting markets in a way that few could have expected.