The Twittersphere has spoken! After an intensely competitive poll that involved a tight race between excellent candidates, our Twitter community has selected DigiByte as the first project we will examine in our “Focus Fire” series.
In this series, we take time to really get to know a project and focus on different elements of what makes the project great. We hope it provides a better understanding of the technology and its vision to the larger cryptocurrency and blockchain community.
And that’s really what this is about: community — particularly in the case of DigiByte. This is a project whose community is passionately dedicated to its furtherance — a project that has deep roots, having been established way back in 2014 (that’s a long time in this realm) as a fork of the Litecoin codebase.
At the time of the fork — and since then — DigiByte’s founder, Jared Tate, and the DigiByte developing community have sought one goal over all others; decentralisation. This is a technology whose raison d’etre resides in its existence as a decentralised currency and protocol that can not be usurped or controlled by any individual, or for that matter, any small group of powerful individuals. For that reason, today’s article in this series will focus on what unique and innovative features make the DigiByte blockchain as decentralised as possible...
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