Tag: solana
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Blockchains As Cities
Great article on Medium by Haseeb Qureshi to help make sense of the evolving cryptocurrency world. I particularly liked the predictions that follow from his model. Analogies are frequently used to explain the crypto space, e.g. bitcoin as digital gold. They inevitably fall short. They are just a bridge or a catalyst to help develop…
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Solana (First Pass)
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-solana#:~:text=Solana%20is%20a%20crypto%20computing,transaction%20fees%20and%20for%20staking. Ethereum competitor like Ethereum it is both a cryptocurrency and a flexible platform for running crypto apps It’s major innovation is Proof-of-History which makes it faster and cheaper to use than Ethereum Solana can process around 50k transactions per second compared to 15 or less for Ethereum (Visa can do tens of thousands per…