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The innovating part of Viva is not so much its blockchain, but its lack of a blockchain. Blockchains are wasteful and expensive places to store data. As Bitcoin has been learning with lightning network,

I sit here alone in quiet contemplation and meditation. I am writing you so that you know my side of the story. Everything was normal in my life, as normal as my crazy life can be, until this Christmas

This is up and coming and is not yet deployed functionality. There is a bit of confusion as to what is changing at TQ in terms of the voting system and I want to take a moment and explain it. We are moving

This week Elizabeth Rosales a reporter from NewsWeek en Español ran an article discussing crypto currencies in Mexico. As part of the article she did not one, not two, but three special sections on our

This is part 1 of a 4 part series on finance for the rest of us. This series is going to be a break away from my normal writing style in order to talk to any other Joe Sixpack who is considering investing

I've been going back over my own posting history, reminiscing and found an earlier post from September where I mentioned that I would explain the process involved in refining gold at home if the posting

Today history was made, of sorts. At least for my family. We held a funeral where telepresence was used for attendees who were unable to be in attendance in person. While it wasn't quite as weird as the

It's well known that most passwords are inherently insecure and that it's remarkably hard to create a password that is both highly secure and will pass most password checks. A password like p@ssw0rd1!

Can loyalty, reputation, power and greed be used to produce Byzantine Fault Tolerance? @dantheman has made some fascinating posts on consensus and designing the blockchain like an MMO. The problem that

This is going to be short. Early yesterday I had a drive crash and it took out my user data cache. Fortunately I was able to recover everything, except I keep my keys and passwords in a highly encrypted

In an earlier post, I explained the importance of witnesses and how you can vote for a witness and why you would want to do that. In short, witnesses are the guardians of the blockchain! Today I decided

Steemit is in my opinion one of the greatest social experiments to ever come along. I know almost all of us come into steemit and it's like this... But consider this for just a moment Each and every one

What's the solution to cloud blackouts and censorship? It's all in the CAN! My good friend @thecryptofiend made a very interesting post today that I thought I would highlight and bring to everyone's attention

I just wanted to share this little tip with you. If you're coming over to Golos from Steemit, this whole GBG thing can be really confusing. GBG is Golos backed milligrams of gold and it has held it's peg

Last night I had a lovely dinner. Honestly, it was the most delicious Salmon I have ever had and at about $10.00 the price was right too! While I didn't have any cash on me, I did have some steem dollars

TxBits is a very popular open source package for crypto currency exchanges, that is extremely well built and secure by default. I stumbled on TxBits while searching for a solid base to build TradeQwik

I'm not trying to scare you, but look at the chart above. Since Trump has taken office, this chart looks just about the same for every currency you can imagine. What it's showing is that the US Dollar

Recently team VIVA setup @viva.witness with the help of @someguy123 This node is on a high end server with oodles of ram and diskspace etc and it's being professionally managed by @someguy123 under our

TradeQwik is a brand new exchange with a twist and we're in beta right now! Our focus is on providing a clean, simple, easy to use gateway into and out of fiat. At TradeQwik you can deposit market pegged

This summer I will be teaching a class of Jr High and High Schoolers in La Mision Mexico how to repair and refurbish computers. My end goal is for them to each walk away with a computer of their own