Valentin Kalinov

Bitcoin

Money Laundering in Crypto vs. Banks

Crypto has always got criticized for being used for criminal activities. From dark markets to money laundering with NFTs, the creativity of the criminals does not disappoint. The crypto community

Blockchain

Helium - the Network of Networks

The Helium Network is the largest public low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) in the United States.

Ape Coin (APE) - Intro and History

APE is an ERC-20 standard token launched on March 17th, 2022, and is the utility token of the ApeCoin DAO. APE will be part of a broader ecosystem of services involving Bored Ape NFT holders.

Blockchain

Scaling Ethereum - Rollups

Since the launch of Ethereum, developers and researchers have been working on Layer 2 (L2) solutions. Rollups are the culmination of this work and research.

Stablecoins

Algorithmic Stablecoins

Algorithmic Stablecoins use price stabilisation algorithms to track a particular unit price - typically $1. Algorithmic stablecoins are not redeemable 1:1 for fiat currency.

Technology

How the Web3 will dissolve governments?

IT IS NOT about programmable money. It is about the freedom to create your own token, be it a currency, community token, governance token or IoT network of connected devices, the freedom to express yourself online, the freedom to transact with anyone on whichever terms and conditions.

DeFi

Flash Loans on Ethereum

Flash Loans, are instant uncollateralised crypto loans where the borrowed asset (and a fee) is returned before the end of the blockchain transaction.

DeFi

Stablecoins - Introduction and Overview

The need for a stable value of transfer in the crypto space has always been a desired feature. Stablecoins, as the name suggests, are designed with one thing in mind - minimising price volatility.

Blockchain

Blockchain Oracles

An oracle, in the context of blockchains and smart contracts, is an agent that finds and verifies real-world occurrences and submits this information to a blockchain to be used by smart contracts.

DeFi

DeFi - Compound Finance Explained

Compound is, in short, a pooled algorithmic money market protocol running on Ethereum.

Blockchain

Friction and Blockchain

The Internet removes friction. What happens when you remove friction in the context of blockchains?

Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin a Public Good?

Bitcoin does not fit the public good definition. Bitcoin is much closer to being a common good where a good is rivalrous yet non-excludable.

Blockchain

Germany announced its Blockchain Strategy

Germany has released its "Blockchain Strategy" statement. The paper is remarkably comprehensive and friendly towards the blockchain technology.

Libra

Facebook's Libra - the Question of Decentralisation

Libra is currently as close as a private company could get in terms of decentralisation. Nevertheless, it is much more decentralised as people initially anticipated.

Blockchain

Bitcoin's Energy Usage

The rise of Bitcoin’s energy consumption in recent years drew the attention of many environmental organisations and publishers.

Blockchain

Introduction to EOS

EOS is a programmable blockchain offering smart contract computation. Compared to Ethereum EOS introduces a different approach to solving some scalability and usability problems.

Blockchain

Cryptography & Blockchain — Part 1

The role of cryptography is to contribute to the security of the blockchain network — by making it hard to manipulate.

Blockchain

Scaling Ethereum — List of Proposals

If Ethereum wants to reach global adoption, it would need to scale, meaning that it will need to be able to handle 100k transactions per second.

Blockchain

Explaining blockchain technology to 7 year olds

We hear every day how blockchain will change our lives and how revolutionary it is, but few people try to explain it in a way a non-programmer or non-computer scientist could understand it.