Why Do Digital Art NFTs Have Value
With the recent boom in the market for NFTs, you have to ask yourself the question, “Why does digital art have value?” Non-fungible tokens or “NFTs” are a hot topic…
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How Microtransactions Can Change the Creator Economy
Blockchain has potential to disrupt the creator economy in many ways from digital art NFTs to secure payments. One of the ways blockchain can change the creator economy is through…
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The Binance Smart Chain: Sacrificing Decentralisation for Technical Performance
You may be familiar with Binance, a popular exchange for cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency derivatives. In April 2018, Binance decided to launch their blockchain, “Binance Chain,” and cryptocurrency token “BNB.” In…
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What is Sharding
Sharding is a database partitioning, that breaks up very large datasets into smaller chunks, or shards, and stores them in separate machines. This makes the data a lot faster to…
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Hard Forks and Soft Forks: A Comprehensive Introduction
Any software needs constant updates to fix issues or increase performance. In the world of cryptocurrencies, those updates are called “forks.” Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are built on decentralized networks. Network…
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What are Sidechains
A sidechain is a separate blockchain attached to the parent through a 2-way peg, which allows assets to be interchangeable and moved across the chains at a fixed deterministic exchange…
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