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Dec 10, 2021

The Cost of Blockchain Convenience

A 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 the transaction fees so that members only have to deal with one Cryptocurrency: ZEE. …

Solana

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The Cost of Blockchain Convenience
The Cost of Blockchain Convenience
Solana

6 min read


Nov 23, 2020

Factom Core Dev Quickstart

After 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 started my journey into Factom was to make it easier for people to follow along the same path. …

Factom

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Factom

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Oct 8, 2020

Delight: A Factom Light Node Concept

At the time of writing, the database size of a Factom Protocol MainNet node is around 28GiB and takes several days to sync. …

Factom

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Delight: A Factom Light Node Concept
Delight: A Factom Light Node Concept
Factom

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Aug 17, 2020

The Cost of Anchoring

The Factom Protocol is a Proof of Authority blockchain, operated by nearly two dozen entities across the globe. Immutability is ensured by the unlikeliness of over a dozen independent companies to agree on a malicious attack, combined with the unlikeliness of such cooperation staying secret. However, the Factom Protocol goes…

Factom

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The Price of Anchoring
The Price of Anchoring
Factom

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Aug 11, 2020

Parallelizing Block Processing— Factom Protocol

One of the major roadblocks to increasing TPS inside the Factom Protocol is the architecture of factomd, particularly the single-threaded approach to message processing. To provide a short recap, the Factom Protocol consensus happens inside the “Process List” (PL) — one per block. …

Factom

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Parallelizing Block Processing— Factom Protocol
Parallelizing Block Processing— Factom Protocol
Factom

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May 14, 2020

Demystifying Factom Management — Factomize

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion around the topic of ANO and server management. That was a stumbling block for me when I started tinkering with Factomd since the code responsible for on-boarding ANOs happens to spread across different repos. This blog aims to shine some light on…

Factom

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Demystifying Factom Management — Factomize
Demystifying Factom Management — Factomize
Factom

9 min read


Apr 29, 2020

Factom TPS Report — Factomize

One of the hurdles that we frequently run into when developing is the question: “did this actually improve the product?” This can lead to some very interesting discussions about where the actual bottleneck is. One of the ways is to have a specific test harness that will perform the same…

Factom

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Factom TPS Report — Factomize
Factom TPS Report — Factomize
Factom

9 min read


Apr 12, 2020

Decentralized ANO Management — Factomize

Currently, onboarding and deboarding of authority nodes is done by whoever has access to the network skeleton key. That key is hardcoded in the factomd codebase. Whoever has access to the private key essentially controls the authority set. There are a number of drawbacks to this approach: The private key…

Factom

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Decentralized ANO Management — Factomize
Decentralized ANO Management — Factomize
Factom

6 min read


Feb 4, 2020

Dynamically On-boarding New Assets — Factomize

At the time of writing, adding a new asset to PegNet is possible but it is a laborious manual process: Find at least two APIs that provide free and reliable* data for the market price Create a polling adapter that is able to read the API endpoint and transform the…

Pegnet

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Pegnet

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Jan 15, 2020

Reaching PegNet Community Consensus via PoW — Factomize

One of PegNet’s selling points is decentralization — officially there is nobody in charge of PegNet. It works as long as the people using it agrees to play by the same rules, which at the moment is done by everyone using the same software: pegnetd. …

Factom

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Factom

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