Podcast: Max Kordek - A Means to an End
Part 2 of the Steven McKie character piece is featured at the top of the show! However, this episode, we also talk with Max Kordek, the founder of a new decentralized platform called Lisk. Lisk is currently in the process of their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which has already raised over 3500 Bitcoins. You do the math on that. That's Arab money right there, son. Since the launch of Lisk there was a lot of confusion about what it really is, and what it enables people to do in the future. While it’s true that you can implement practically everything into a Lisk sidechain, we believe that the....
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In the wake of the split into ETH and ETC - Ethereum Classic, following the recent hack of The DAO on the Ethereum platform which led to a hard fork to recover the stolen funds, Max Kordek, Lisk CEO, has come out to “clean up some misunderstandings, and explain briefly what Lisk is and what it isn’t.” Lisk is not a fork of Ethereum. In a blog post to the Lisk community, Kordek states categorically that Lisk is not a fork of Ethereum as the first of various misunderstandings, myths, and other wrong facts he wanted to dispel. Kordek writes: “The Lisk code base was forked from the Crypti....
Considering that the likelihood of a fork may arise to the Lisk project in the future, a member within its community has raised an open question to what would be the response to the situation - if it happens. Referencing Lisk’s CEO, Max Kordek, who had earlier said that something like the DAO might be possible on the platform in a few years, a question was raised on whether there is a plan on how to handle a coding issue similar to the DAO/ETH error that led to the “DAO Hack”. How will Lisk DAO handle security issues? According to the Lisk’s August technical meeting - the second community....
Lisk plans to launch a modular cryptocurrency which it says would satisfy the growing interest to use the blockchain as a decentralized database for different use-cases outside of FinTech May 24. According to its co-founder and CEO, Max Kordek, the platform will allow JavaScript developers to follow it by offering them necessary tools to deploy a blockchain application in its own sidechain on the Lisk network. They won’t have to learn complex languages of individual blockchains. Modular cryptocurrency. If successful with its launch, it would be the first of its kind. As a modular....
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With the growing level of adoption and interest in digital currencies, China with its grip on the market seems the place to be. Ahead of Ethereum’s DevCon2 later in September, Lisk CEO Max Kordek is on his first China visit which he’d said “will be big.” While the cryptocurrency market of the Asian economic giant is still a new terrain for both platforms to explore, Ethereum seems to have started building its reach with Vitalik Buterin maintaining a link as well as a forum. Lisk has just started, and it looks promising. Lisk to network in China. While in China, Kordek will speak at a....