Dec
07
Governance vs. Consensus
I had a hard time keeping these two terms straight at first because they're highly related. Governance can
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Dec
06
Modular upgradeability (aka no hard forks)
Blockchains need to be upgraded from time to time. Once they're turned on in the real world, they&
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Dec
04
Koinsensus is coming
For blockchains, the consensus algorithm is how you keep all the different computers in the network honest. You might have
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Dec
03
15% inflation
At launch, the supply of Koin will inflate by (at most) 15% per year (so, up to 15 million Koin
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Dec
02
Reader follow up: "receiver pays mana"
A fellow list member replied yesterday with a couple great questions (shared with permission)
Could you expand a bit on
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Dec
01
Receiver pays mana
If you're a developer (or company) making a decentralized (read: blockchain) app today, people have to pay fees
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Nov
30
Mana delegation & podcast is live!
If you don't own any Koin, you may still want to interact with the blockchain (eventually, this will
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Nov
29
Mana Monday
Koinos is free to use because of the mana system. If you have 1 Koin then you have 1 Mana,
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Nov
27
Why aren't other blockchains fee-less?
When you use Ethereum, you have to pay "gas fees" -- which makes it sound like you'
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Nov
26
Koinos = common
I used to think Koinos meant Koin operating system. It makes sense, but it actually means "common" (in