Staking – the practice of providing one’s tokens to help operate and secure a network, usually in exchange for rewards – is rapidly becoming a substantial ecosystem of its own as the number and market capitalization of cryptocurrencies using a “proof of stake” (PoS) consensus mechanism to verify transactions continues to grow (in contrast to electricity-intensive “proof of work” chains like Bitcoin). Staked / Kraken’s State of Staking Q2 report cataloged a number of impressive growth stats. While proof of stake’s share of the total crypto market cap increased only 2% quarter over quarter to 23%: The value of staked assets rose 61% to $68 billion Market cap of the…
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Multi-Signature Ethereum Wallets Explained
Benefits include enhanced security, control and flexibility
Security is essential in the brave new world of cryptocurrency. It is crucial to safeguard digital assets from possible dangers and weaknesses, as along with the myriad benefits crypto offers, each owner takes on a large, and often quite challenging, responsibility in the absence of a company or entity to turn to for support. Not to mention that there is generally zero opportunity for restitution in the case of user error or malfeasance. The phrase “not your keys, not your coins” has long meant both that if you allow an entity to hold your crypto-assets they have ultimate control over them, as well as that the assets are truly in…
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How Cryptocurrency Changed My Life
I educated myself about Blockchain, and am not looking back
Most teenagers are excited for their 18th birthdays because they can legally get a tattoo, rent an apartment, or maybe go ski diving. I was excited because I was finally going to be able to buy into cryptocurrency, a concept that had already fascinated me for months prior to my 18th. That was a little less than 14 months ago, but I have never been so glad that I did anything. I have always had an infatuation with economics, the distribution of wealth, and how society functions in respect to currency. The idea that cryptocurrency could disrupt the current economic system fascinates me to no end. When I first got…
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What are DAOs?
How decentralized autonomous organizations communicate and function
DAOs and how they communicate A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is an organized community on the Internet that pools funds together in an effort to achieve a common goal. DAOs are often run using Ethereum (ETH) tokens, but they can have their own governance tokens specific to the project as well. The DAOs that tend to get news coverage are those that fail at their goal, or that get hacked and lose millions. It’s conventionally unfair to use that as a reason to disparage the decentralized organizations, as the same thing also happens to normal LLCs. Discord is a platform that users can use to create servers for a variety…
