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Welcome to Brice's Crypto Compendium. Here, you'll find a structured overview of all my articles addressing cryptocurrency and decentralization. Happy reading!
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Why Decentralization matters? A 12 min overview for the layman | July 2018
Decentralize everything! But wait, what does it even mean? Essentially it's the dawn of a new world order. No biggie really, but enough to be worth 12 min of your time to get what is happening.
Money 101 - Discarding the myth of bartering to understand Bitcoin better | July 2018
How do we go from metal-backed currencies to Bitcoin? It's a journey starting with forgetting the fairy tales we've heard about bartering. Then, we can consider the upcoming monetary innovations.
Non-fungible tokens explained with Blastoise and Charizard | August 2018
Complex concepts made accessible thanks to Pokémon cards: the future of tokenization on the Ethereum network - from non-fungible tokens to ERCs (Ethereum Request for Comment).
Is stability a necessity for cryptocurrencies mainstream adoption? | August 2018
Stablecoins provide an answer to one of the main concern of the general audience with cryptos: volatility. But it comes with a cost: centralization. Can future projects solve our present dilemma?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Crypto Bullshit: How to spot a shitcoin? | July 2018
How to do a proper research on a cryptocurrency project? From the team to the token economics I give you some tricks to make sure your investments are as sound as they can be.
The demise of Nation States: Introducing the Nation as a Service (NaaS) | June 2018
Considering the progressive disengagement of the nation states from state affairs, what will fill the void? Let me introduce a framework to read the post-nation world: the Nation as a Service (NaaS): the emergence of digital nation offering new services and citizenship portability.
The Nation as a Service and its fractional citizenship— a good idea? | July 2018
The rise of the Nation as a Service is an underlying trend forcing a paradigm shift. There is but one question left to answer: is it for the better?
Respecting Users’ Privacy: The oddity that must become a standard | July 2018
Where did our online privacy go? It disappeared down the Google-Apple-Facebook flush. An overview of the digital tracking net and the presentation of the basic tools to escape it.
Facebook X Cambridge Analytica: the hidden cost of free services | April 2018
An overview of the individual and societal consequences of the current free supported by ads business model adopted by most major free online services. Is the advertising model even sustainable?
Growing beyond the advertising model to achieve democracy’s true potential | April 2018
The durable and unsolvable problems caused by advertising giants. The fault do not lie in the actors, it's a structural problem. How can a democracy be possible with the GAFAMs?
Why are cryptocurrencies better than cash? | May 2018
A quick read looking back at the history of cryptocurrencies and the cypherpunk movement to clearly understand the edge of decentralization. I also provide several starting resources for cryptocurrencies beginners at the end.
Note: All the articles in this section were written for a token-based compensation through Bounty0X. I'm still very selective with which project I cover, and I have an entire liberty in what I write in these articles.
Hilo, the place where the crypto community can learn, share and grow? | June 2018
The cryptocurrency community is in need of reliable services to grow and exchange; its own, made with its tech. Will Hilo be that place?
Fixing online streaming: from a mafia to an ecosystem with Injii | May 2018
Online streaming services are facing more and more criticisms: excessive commission on the videos publisher ads (~50% of the total advertising revenues), unfair and unclear moderation policy, copyright enforcement... An overview of how Injii's intend to turn the mafia into a neatly organized and structured ecosystem.
Howdoo we make social great again? We decentralize it! | May 2018
The Cambridge Analytica scandal made the general population aware of the massive political and personal issue that arise once their personal data is collected, aggreagted at scale and sold to potentially anyone. Where do we go from here? We build the social networks of tomorrow, where this kind of behavior is not possible: HowDoo.
Setting the music industry’s march to the beat of a decentralized TUNE | May 2018
The music industry is ripe with fraud, abuses and simply archaic though processes. While the old world is fighting to preserve its fleeting clientele, ethereum-based projects such as Tune are honing pragmatic their alternative.
CoinJanitor: the circle of life and death continues, decentralized | May 2018
What happens when crypto projects fail and are no longer maintained? Currently: a slow disappearance. With CoiJanitor? A structured farewell organized by the community: the is coin bought-out, the underlying blockchain decommissioned and the code of the project is made accessible in an open-source blockchain library.
Crypto exchanges are getting out of hand, do we need an epiphany? | May 2018
An analysis of the centralizations issues posed by major crypto-exchanges and the need for a strong decentralized exchanges offering. Could Epiphany's ICO-less compliance-focused approach be the successful one?
Transparency for non-profits is a stimulating ideal, but it's hard to execute. Could a dedicated token help them update their internal software to match the expectations of a modern audience?
Keep your child’s hands out of the piggy bank with Pigzbe | May 2018
Presenting a creative and user-friendly cryptocurrency to help children's learn about money and investing while letting their parents in control: Pigzbe.
The price of cash varies around the world, and the most impoverished countries pay the heaviest toll. How to even the odds with EthicHub?
Before robots that build themselves, let’s start by building robots the smart way | July 2018
Want better robots? Let's smarten up the process to design them: open-source and collaboration incentived through game-theory mechanisms from the design phase to consumer or business applications.
Sato is a cryptocurrency chatbot made with Python and Recast.AI The whole creation process of Sato has been documented, allowing you to easily reproduce him by forking the GitHub repo and Recast.AI bot or reconstructing it yourself.
- Tutorial #0 - The basics of bot building with Recast.AI
- SATO Tutorial #1 - Setting up a self-hosted server (ngrok) to let our bot fetch data (crypto prices) from third party APIs.
- SATO Tutorial #2 - Hosting your server on Heroku using Github
You can find and fork Sato - BOT from here
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