Why I don't see the point of group-tokens A couple of months ago we saw a revival of interest in the miner validated tokens idea for Bitcoin Cash. I ended up spending about 2 full time weeks investigating the proposals and the ideas behind them. One of the proposals is Andrew Stone's GROUP, which got more airtime recently. As I spent time understanding the ideas behind it for those weeks, I realized that there is a lot of hype and not really all that much meat. Take a look…
@TomZ in April 2021
Quality of Service in a Decentralized World. When millions of people use a central service, like reddit, google or facebook, we see how quality of service is important for the brand and for the user experience. Every now and then those big services fail, sometimes an whole day, sometimes just an hour. You can talk to your fellow colleagues or students and they all realize the problem, because everyone is affected. Quality of service is pretty important for those big…