Blockchain Space: How And Why Cryptocurrencies Fit Into The Space Age
Image Credit Interplanetary trade will be a happening thing in a few centuries. Most raw materials extracted in outer space...
Month: July 2016
What Are Cryptocurrencies, Anyway?
There have been digital currencies like BitGold and digital payment systems like Paypal before. What makes cryptocurrencies so special? In...
Some Problems With Using Cryptocurrencies For Interplanetary Commerce
Is Bitcoin Doomed To Fail? By now, the people who say that Bitcoin will fail are starting to sound like...
Why Not Just Use Banks?
I know what you're probably thinking. With all the problems and highly technical solutions in the last chapter, why can't...
The Decentralized Blockchain Ledger
I've already mentioned that cryptocurrencies make use of a new kind of ledger called the Blockchain, but this is a...
Cryptocurrencies Reward the Production and Deployment of Resources
It's taken for granted that most space colonies won't be worried about trade for quite a while yet. They'll be...
How The Blockchain Network Works
Three network models. Especially note the difference between a decentralized network and a distributed network. Image Credit The above graphic...
Creating A Complete Financial System With The Blockchain
Uses for the Blockchain The original Blockchain was designed to store transaction data. Any time so much as a single...
We Have A Choice To Make
The idea that Satoshi Nakamoto might have been an alien might make for an amusing History Channel documentary. As a...
A Few Good Webcams
How often have you wished that the built-in camera on your mobile device was better? The truth is, you're not...
