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Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 3: IOTA

This post is part of a series that compares Ardor to other blockchain projects with similar features or goals. You can find the previous posts here: Ardor vs. Plasma Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 1: Lisk Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 2: NEM/Mijin/Catapult This week I studied IOTA, a distributed ledger that doesn’t use a …

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Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 2: NEM/Mijin/Catapult

This post is part of a series that compares Ardor to other blockchain projects with similar features or goals. You can find the previous posts here: Ardor vs. Plasma Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 1: Lisk This week I studied NEM, a public blockchain similar to Nxt in many ways. As I’m primarily interested in …

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Ardor vs. the Competition, Pt. 1: Lisk

I recently decided to start a series of posts that compare and contrast Ardor with other blockchain projects that appear to have similar goals or features. Roughly each week, I’ll pick a project whose scope overlaps at least a little with Ardor’s, study its technical documentation, and post a summary of my findings here for …

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Thoughts about hard forks

The Nxt core development team as well as the Nxt community are eagerly awaiting the Nxt 1.7 hardfork, which will unleash new Nxt core features. Meanwhile, the long time Bitcoin supporter and developer Mike Hearn has caused open chaos in the media and inside the Bitcoin world, leaving the Bitcoin dev team and not only slamming the …

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The regulatory process: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu

On 22 April 2015 The European Securities and Markets Authority (‘ESMA’)1, the equivalent of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, issued a call for evidence regarding ‘Investment using virtual currency or distributed ledger technology’. Nxt is the example of the digital currency platform ESMA used in its ‘call for evidence’ to illustrate how distributed ledger …

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Egyptianomics, or what the Joseph story has to teach Nxters

It’s a classic tale of sibling rivalry, betrayal and rags to riches, set in the 18th century BC to a rousing soundtrack of show tunes. But the best-known versions of the Joseph story gloss over his shrewd handling of the famine and some of the more dubious details of his management of the Egyptian economy. …

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Imagine

Imagine a Nation of Teachers all resigning at once and each creating their own educational systems.  Some systems fail miserably, some turn out to be spectacular. Some of the teachers who had the least success revamp their systems after looking closely at successful systems and those who refuse to change get abandoned by their students …

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The value of 10 NXTs

Introduction What is the value of 10 NXTs?, you may ask. This article might give you an answer. Let’s start off with a short dialog though. “What is the value of $10?”, the teacher asked his class. “$10, of course”, a student responded quickly. “Try to explain it without using $10”, so the student rethinks and replies with …

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