The Cost of Blockchain ConvenienceA major goal of Zoints was to make the user experience for members new to Crypto as seamless as possible. For this, we decided to subsidize…Dec 10, 2021Dec 10, 2021
Factom Core Dev QuickstartAfter more than two years of core development on the Factom Protocol, I will be moving on. One of the goals I set for myself when I…Nov 23, 2020Nov 23, 2020
Delight: A Factom Light Node ConceptAt the time of writing, the database size of a Factom Protocol MainNet node is around 28GiB and takes several days to sync. Not everyone…Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
The Price of AnchoringThe Factom Protocol is a Proof of Authority blockchain, operated by nearly two dozen entities across the globe. Immutability is ensured by…Aug 17, 2020Aug 17, 2020
Parallelizing Block Processing— Factom ProtocolOne of the major roadblocks to increasing TPS inside the Factom Protocol is the architecture of factomd, particularly the single-threaded…Aug 11, 20201Aug 11, 20201
Demystifying Factom Management — FactomizeRecently, there has been a lot of discussion around the topic of ANO and server management. That was a stumbling block for me when I…May 14, 2020May 14, 2020
Factom TPS Report — FactomizeOne of the hurdles that we frequently run into when developing is the question: “did this actually improve the product?” This can lead to…Apr 29, 2020Apr 29, 2020
Decentralized ANO Management — FactomizeCurrently, onboarding and deboarding of authority nodes is done by whoever has access to the network skeleton key. That key is hardcoded…Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020
Dynamically On-boarding New Assets — FactomizeAt the time of writing, adding a new asset to PegNet is possible but it is a laborious manual process:Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Reaching PegNet Community Consensus via PoW — FactomizeOne of PegNet’s selling points is decentralization — officially there is nobody in charge of PegNet. It works as long as the people using…Jan 15, 2020Jan 15, 2020