Blockchain Developers Are Focused on the Wrong Problem

Most wallets feel like they were created for developers. That’s becoming a bigger problem in terms of both practicality and security as crypto adoption increases. After Ethereum’s long-awaited Merge, it’s an ideal time to think about how we can also improve smart contracts. Essentially apps that run on blockchains, smart contracts are a vital component of our Web3 applications. But interacting with them remains quite dangerous, especially for non-developers. Many of the incidents where users lose their crypto assets are caused by buggy or malicious smart contracts.As a Web3 app developer,....

Close collaboration continues to be the absolute necessity for blockchain success. The closer the collaboration between developers and commercial organizations, the better the results that emerge. And the closer everybody works with consumers, the more likely it is that the result will be something attractive to them. This technology is young: the tools to interact with it are designed largely for developers. Creating experiences for consumers is hard, and allowing consumers to interact with it directly can be even harder. An example: every action on public blockchains requires a....

Many people are keeping a close eye on the block size debate for very different reasons. Solving the Bitcoin block size problem has been a top priority for developers over the past few months. Multiple solutions have been proposed, although only two of them are in actual “contention” right now. Bitcoin Core developers have begun development of a third solution that would shift the block size to 2MB. It is always good to have options on the table. Even though Segregated Witness has not been denied by the mining community yet, it is due time to consider alternatives. Bitcoin Core developers....

It has been a terrible couple of weeks for bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain. First, the firm's product lead got into an online spat with a Coinbase engineer on Reddit. Then, Blockchain's wallet was pulled from Bitcoin.org, an informational website managed by bitcoin core developers and community members, for poor security. The company found itself publicly promising to reimburse customers after a random number generator flaw that led to hundreds of addresses being compromised. Further, unsubstantiated online reports suggested that bitcoins had been stolen as a result of the issue. So,....

This guide on blockchain application development presents eight steps for developing apps that are to live on the blockchain. How long does it take to create a blockchain?The development phase for blockchain applications can take a few months to a year or longer. It’s important to be strategic and delineate a roadmap. Developers must understand how much time is required to dedicate to each step before proceeding to the next stages.Some questions to ask when going through this step include the following:What are the real-world use cases for this project? Does the project use smart....