Houses made of blockchain

Is blockchain a solution for everything?

The Polish novel "Przedwiośnie" was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Żeromski, and first published in 1925.

  • immutability
  • security
  • decentralization
  • transparency
  • openness
  • mistakes cannot be undone
  • only if you know how to keep things secure
  • network effect, economy of scale
  • merchants do not like that
  • DDOS attacks

Things which are great about blockchain:

...and why those things sucks:

Does Bitcoin Solve Byzantine Consensus?

Blockchain is made of:

  • Consensus algorithm (PoW, PoS, DPoS, PoC, PoB) 
  • Economy model (incentives) & rules







     
  • Community

Disadvantages of different consensus alghorithms

Proof of Work

- miners decides about future of network

- burn a lot of electricity

 

Proof of Stake

- "rich gets richer"

 

Delegated Proof of Stake

- a lot of politics is involved

 

 

Politics

  • blocksize
  • distribiution
  • incentives structure
  • consensus algorithms

From developer perspective

  • running full node require powerful machine
  • storing data in blockchain is expensive
  • asynchronous programming
  • debugging is difficult
  • lack of good support for unittests
  • development tools are not mature
  • speed of processing is critical
  • code is a documentation

From users perspective

  • ugly addresses
  • confirmation time
  • public/private keys
    • imposible to remember
    • no "forgot my password" option
  • legal doubts
  • everything is about money, people do not trust that
  • no help-desk
  • lack of stability (price)
  • you need to have a stake to be a participiant

Funding / ICOs

  • premine
  • ICO

Satoshi has around ~1 million BTC

Zcash and 20% “Genius Tax”

About Me

Krzysztof Szumny

 

 

 

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