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Krzysztof Shpak 657 30.04.2020

Building Decentralized Social Networks of Tomorrow

Concluding the series of articles about the shortcomings of DPoS and LPoS algorithms, Vladimir Popov talked about the decentralized social networks and the internet of the future where websites can’t be shut down and access to information can’t be restricted. This is an adaptation of the original Russian-language article Vladimir wrote exclusively for ForkLog.

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Krzysztof Shpak 443 27.04.2020

Government Blockchain Consultant: Smart City Comes After Smart Citizens

Technologies are constantly changing modern society. Back in the day, VCRs disrupted home entertainment. Sometime later, social media disrupted news networks and communication. But once in a while, technologies bring about tectonic shifts in all areas of life at once.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1067 21.04.2020

What Holds Real Decentralization Back

Vladimir Popov, the founder of Synergis who had co-authored a book about Web 3.0, highlighted the principal problems of DPoS and LPoS algorithms, explained flaws in their architecture, and hypothesized about decentralized networks of the future. This is an adaptation of the original Russian-language article Vladimir wrote exclusively for ForkLog.

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Krzysztof Shpak 722 17.04.2020

Contentos’s Mick Tsai: It’s Impossible to Circumvent the Regulation Issue and It’s Not Just About China

Content is the main product of consumption and the chief breadwinner for Web’s denizens. As user-generated content is steadily rising to the top of the food chain, the new Web will have to provide fair and lucrative platforms for millions of independent content creators to thrive in.

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Krzysztof Shpak 475 14.04.2020

Proof-of-Stake Future: Inevitability or Myth

The debate about Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work being obsolete and downright harmful to the environment has been going on for a while. Alternative algorithms like Proof-of-Stake emerged aiming to solve the problems, but the solution to end the debate is yet to be found.

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Krzysztof Shpak 993 10.04.2020

Facebook’s Tale: The Life and Death of Web 2.0 Social Networks

Web 1.0, the world wide web of the 90s, was more like a vast multimedia library. The point of using Web 2.0 websites, on the other hand, slowly shifted toward user-generated content as much as interacting with it and with other creators. One could argue that while Web 1.0 offered one-way access to information, Web […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 993 04.04.2020

Zoom and Gloom: Use It to Your Own Peril

While most businesses suffer greatly during the quarantine, there are bound to be at least some that actually thrive. It makes sense that among such businesses the most prominent ones would be digital platforms that provide convenient access to work and entertainment from home.

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Krzysztof Shpak 682 28.03.2020

Will Global Crisis Kill Off DeFi? Stakeholders’ Perspective

The Black Thursday shook the entire DeFi sector along with the wider crypto-industry. This time, DeFi wasn’t the much-needed salvation, despite its relative successes over the past couple years. Yet, the crisis brought up the significant potential of decentralized finance, when compared to its traditional counterpart.

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Krzysztof Shpak 574 28.03.2020

Occupy the Internet: Our New Section to Kickstart a Discussion on Decentralized Web

Imagine a society where social, political or cultural discussion almost entirely happens in digital space. Imagine that the digital space where this conversation is happening is absolutely dominated and controlled by several private companies with arbitrary non-transparent policies and no accountability before the general public. Imagine that these companies can abuse their power with impunity, […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 551 27.02.2020

How Decentralized Is Bitcoin? An Expert Take

Back in 2012, the FBI defined Bitcoin as a decentralized peer-to-peer network-based virtual currency. But even though Bitcoin is undoubtedly p2p, network-based, and virtual, there had been varying opinions on just how decentralized it actually is.

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Krzysztof Shpak 434 13.02.2020

No Power Vacuum in Cosmos: What Founder’s Departure Entails

Cosmos, the big one among blockchain interoperability projects, has its founder Jae Kwon leaving to work on another project. Soon after the news about Kwon’s decision hit the news, criticism followed.

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ForkLog 392 31.05.2019

TRON Announces BitTorrent File System Protocol

Blockchain platform Tron, which is behind the decentralized, web focused cryptocurrency TRX, announced plans to develop a BitTorrent-based version of decentralized file system InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

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