Discovering New Payment Efficiencies Through Decentralized Applications
With the advent of blockchain technology, a brand new term has emerged: “decentralized applications,” also known as smart contracts. A decentralized application is a novel concept that acts as a secure and public agreement between a distributed ledger such as Bitcoin or Ethereum and one or more of its users. The main advantages for traditional payment....
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Online payments are becoming more and more important every day, but that doesn’t mean the platforms we use are stepping up their security game. PayPal, one of the largest online payment processors in the world, recently fell victim to a bug in their account system, allowing users to send malicious code through confirmation emails. Luckily, the person discovering this issue has reported the exploit to PayPal through their bug bounty program, rather than using it for malicious intent.
Exclusive Q&A with Joseph Fiscella : Florincoin and Decentralized Applications. If you don’t know who Joseph Fiscella is, you’re in for a treat. Joey, as he is primarily known as, is the core developer for Florincoin, and all the following decentralized applications that have come along with it. First we have Florincoin Q&A , which will discuss the coin, and we will then transition over to the three decentralized applications Joey is also working on. Here’s a video of Joey talking about it at the CryptoCurrency Convention.
David A. Johnston, co-founder of BitAngels and serial entrepreneur, has a list of professional accomplishments too numerous to list here. His current work with decentralized applications and blockchain technologies includes serving on the board of the Mastercoin Foundation and managing the BitAngels DApps Fund I, and he also co-wrote the primary white paper on decentralized applications. We recently reached out to Johnston to learn more about his work. CoinTelegraph: How did you get started in working with, and helping develop the general theory of, decentralized apps? David A. Johnston: I....
Bitcoin has opened up a whole new dimension of decentralized applications. The use of blockchain technology is being explored for almost every industry. With the implementation of blockchain technology in every new field, a huge requirement of applications will open up. Development of decentralized applications is easier with the help of existing APIs, frameworks etc. as compared to writing every single piece of code afresh. Crypti is one such platform that makes development of decentralized applications easy. An initiative of Crypti Foundation, Crypti offers APIs and other resources for....
The growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has exploded over the last year, beginning with less than $1 billion in total locked value to almost $20 billion currently. DeFi has created transactional opportunities that were previously impossible without blockchain technology, unlocking additional value for users that was previously captured by third parties. With the explosion of DeFi applications, more cryptocurrency users are discovering ways to generate additional yield on their cryptocurrency holdings, both actively and passively. […]