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Here’s our third and, hopefully, not final text about the most unusual ways to apply blockchain technology. Here, by the way, you can read the first and the second part. Why not uniting people with the help of blockchain? The idea of online dating and Internet communication is being developed by the Matchpool blockchain project. On their official website, they claim that a decentralized system will allow you to find the right people, post and apply for jobs, support interest groups - all in a completely secure format. Each user is able to open their own "matchmaking network" and interact with other links in the chain, so we can say that th

Some time ago we wrote about how to control the freshness of products and help factory workers with anonymous feedbacks to improve the quality of work. Today we have selected for you some more incredible cases of using blockchain technologies in the most unexpected industries. A real electronic state! No, this is not a joke. The concept of decentralization inherent in the blockchain, the guys from Bitnation Governance 2.0 raised to the absolute. They have created a decentralized “state” that they say provides exactly the same services as any real state: personal identification, marriage registration, loans, medical insurance. Any membe

Blockchain is undoubtedly one of the most disruptive technologies of the present time. And, like any similar phenomenon, it is overgrown with myths and false information that can confuse a newcomer trying to understand it. We’ve read Melanie Swan's book “Blockchain. Blueprint for a new economy” and will try to tell you about the 3 most popular myths and misconceptions. Will all information in the nodes be stored forever? Answer: very unlikely. Indeed, each client of the network stores information about all transactions carried out without exception. For example, information about the history of Ethereum transactions takes up more than 200

We wrote about the history of the creation of TON and their battle with the US Securities Commission in one of the previous posts. Now let's look at what tasks they tried to solve and what unique features the Durovs planned to implement in their Telegram Open Network, and whether they and the team of independent developers succeeded in it. The original whitepaper is still freely available, you can read it here. The tasks facing the developers were truly gigantic: to create nothing but the most perfect blockchain in the world, which: will have an instant transaction speed, and thus will compete with fiscal payment systems (transfer cryp

We know that among our readers there are those who do not fully understand the insides of cryptocurrencies and are just starting their journey. Yeah, greetings to you, dear newcomers. Today we prepared for you a small dictionary of frequently used terms and abbreviations with brief explanations in a very simple language. The list contains both important concepts and comic ones (which we all also use,why not). This collection will be divided into several parts, this is the first one, about cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Dear experienced blockchain and cryptocurrency users, forgive us for some simplifications, we want to make life of less

Currently, blockchain technology is not tied solely to cryptocurrencies. It is estimated that blockchain is used in more than 50 industries, from tracking the distribution of energy resources in real time to registering land titles. Here are some examples of how blockchain is applied in completely unexpected spheres, introducing new opportunities: After the discovery of E. coli bacteria in packages of lettuce, Walmart and Sam's Club proposed the use of blockchain technology to control the freshness of products. According to their idea, a customer at a self-service checkout could scan any product and find out where it was grown/produced