ElasticSearch at CoinBase

https://youtu.be/u5j0MOpIkV0

ElasticSearch and big data on Coinbase.  Cool presentation on how they implented ElasticSearch. 

Tangles, DAGs, and IOTA

https://youtu.be/I_jNH9BlEEo

In IOTA every user is a 'miner' and it's not really a blockchain, but Tangles , DAGs and graph theory in a sense.   Good video.

POS vs POW challenges still ahead

https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engineering-mindset-15e641ab65a2

Great write up on the consensus challenges for POS.  POW has proven to work at scale on various cryptocurrencies.  POS still seems in it's academic infancy as far as moving forward into the Proof of Stake less energy utilization world of cryptocurrency and blockchain. 

Monero no ASIC

https://cointelegraph.com/news/monero-and-siacoin-reject-bitmains-asic-miners-who-could-be-next

ASIC and bitmain/antminer control what , 70% of all mining equipment, so yeah , take about centralized systems in a way. 

SEC has a dedicated ICO page now

https://www.sec.gov/ICO

SEC (securities and exchange commission) created a dedicated page for ICOs now.  

Lightning network raspberry pi github tutorial

https://github.com/Stadicus/guides/blob/master/raspibolt/README.md

This is a cool thing to test out.  Build a node for the lightning network with a raspberry pi.  

Distributed systems for a blockchain decentralization world

Why distributed systems engineers aren't  working on blockchain much ?

Good read.

Supply chain and IOTA

Supply plains and logistics are like black boxes.   So a connected global world with 3000 parts everywhere and nowhere and unknown ...

Origin of the entire supply chain needs to be smarter ....

Cardano explained

https://youtu.be/Ja9D0kpksxw

Cardano is a fascinating study the more and more I dig deep into it. Things like RINA, sidechains, Ouroboros POS.  Plus it's all peer reviewed multiple times and attempts to build and design a highly Assurant platform is really impressive.

Time will tell if it's ever released and used as they dream.  But technology wise , I sure hope they keep plugging away and making a great blockchain 3.0 system.

Cardano coming on strong

Cardano is an ambitious journey and just might be one of the best blockchain platforms , Technically speaking. And I think you can use some Haskell like programming concepts with it.  However, even though it's really received some love lately it's like the quiet blockchain for various reasons.

Hopefully more and more people discover it and start using it. Maybe I will attempt something this week on it.  If I can.

Citizen health for blockchain and world

Very ambitious project to help change healthcare around the world.  Lots of opportunities and challenges. Open source and a market place for others to add on top.   Will be something great to be involved in and follow. 

Citizen Health for the people and by the people.

The real blockchain or a tangle of graph theory?

So blockchain vs dags is coming.  Blocks and tangles.  Graph theory.  DAGs are (directed acylic graphs).  It's used a lot in big data technologies now like spark and tez and impala.  But in the blockchain space you now have IOTA and Hashgraph doing more of tangles and DAG theory vs blockchains,  but both these have detractors as in not much evidence they actually have a working implementation as they claim. 

Time will tell.

Quantum chip Intel ... The future

Intel and quantum computing chips.. the future or marketing hype ?

Stellar consensus protocol

Ico regulations world.

Great reading if you're looking at raising funds , creating a crypto coin or just investing. And these regulations keep changing.

Chp 1 - Asia
ICO regulations around world

Chp 2 - Middle East, USA, UK
ICO and blockchain cryptocurrency regulations around the world. 

Quantum computing and data analysis

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610138/a-small-scale-demonstration-shows-how-quantum-computing-could-revolutionize-data-analysis/

Very cool possibilities but a ways to go.

Amazon Healthcare anyone ?

What do you think about Amazon Healthcare?  Oh yeah Berkshire and JPMC are also involved so some big money backers and possibilities.   I wonder if they will utilize some blockchain Technologies to cut out some fees and Middlemen. 

Periodoc table of blockchain

The Periodic table of blockchain... very good read around different dynamics in the business sense and tokenization and governance and accountability sense. 

Stellar and an ico

https://www.coindesk.com/why-a-39-million-ico-chose-stellar-over-ethereum/

Interesting concept and use case.  Makes sense as well as these fees are making the traditional blockchain leaders far too expensive for simple tasks. 

Ripple ripple xrp why

Do banks want Ripple ?

That was the question, is the question and will be the question for a long time.  Ripple actually has built a very good ledger and platform for cross border exchanges.  And the SWIFT network is the middleman of the middelman centralized fallacy of fallacies. 

However, Ripple has become another centralized version of a fallacy themselves.

Hide blockchain from their marketing hype and what makes you think WOW?   That's the biggest problem for Ripple because they aren't some new decentralized eliminate the middleman philosophy at all.  They are just a different version of SWIFT.  Time will tell.