Blockchain Insights

Blockchain Insights

Working as a consultant for Blockchain projects, an operative experience comes by itself. In this Blog I am share Blockchain applications, pros and cons, practical use cases I got in touch with. Of course, a good understanding of the topic will be provided with dedicated contents


Blockchain the hearthquake of classical accounting

31 Oct 2020 3 minute read 0 comments MikeZillo

We all talk about Blockchain, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technologies), Wallet, and many other terms that refer to this new and destabilizing technology, but do we know exactly the concept that follows? To be able to introduce the topic, we need to take...

White Paper, it's importance and why you MUST read them before buying assets

30 Oct 2020 4 minute read 6 comments MikeZillo

With the advent of Bitcoin and various other cryptocurrencies, the word White Paper has also entered our vocabulary, but what is it and to what do we owe its extreme importance to it? History Born in the political-social field, it is a document that...

Iota Trinity Wallet Hack: What Happened?

28 Oct 2020 3 minute read 20 comments MikeZillo

On February 12th an attack was launched by a Pool of Hackers who managed to break into some accounts of the Iota Trinity Wallet and take almost $ 2 million.Before getting to the heart of the fraudulent act and how it was perpetrated, I will try to cl...

The Neutrino protocol: an algorithm that subverts stable-coins

26 Oct 2020 5 minute read 11 comments MikeZillo

All cryptocurrencies are characterized by a very high volatility that prevents the expansion of the technology on a large scale; to try to overcome this inconvenient feature, stable-coins have been established. Stable coins are nothing more than cryp...

Cypherpunks, a bunch of maniacs or the first Bitcoin supporters?

23 Oct 2020 2 minute read 10 comments MikeZillo

The Cypherpunks, precursors of cryptography to protect privacy, laid the foundations for the birth of Bitcoin, or more generally of Cryptocurrencies. The Cypherpunk movement was born in the late 1980s with a very specific idea: to protect your person...

Upland: Real Estate simulation with the tokenization

19 Oct 2020 2 minute read 5 comments MikeZillo

I am a loyal Brave Browser user and a few months ago I saw the advertisement of Upland with a nice llama in the logo. I love the llama animal, maybe because I was grown up with the idea that llama spite to people they feel uncomfortable with. I gave...

DEXToken: mathematical ways to rule the economy

18 Oct 2020 4 minute read 4 comments MikeZillo

A bit of history Everyone is well aware of the Great Depression of 1920, the so-called “jazz age”. In that period banks and politicians influenced the rules of the market. This still happens since money is not people’s money but comes from the centra...

Tokenization: insights on How and Why it should be pursued

16 Oct 2020 2 minute read 11 comments MikeZillo

The first time I heard tokenization I imagined a rain of tokens from the carousel. Yes, nothing so realistic, but when I first heard about this topic (back in the mdi-2017), Security tokens and tokenization were really abstract concepts. But, as I pr...

Non Fungible Tokens: What/How/Where. Thoughts and applications

13 Oct 2020 2 minute read 14 comments MikeZillo

NFTs are particular Tokens that give the Blockchain the possibility of not being associated solely with cryptocurrencies. The fungibility of an asset indicates the ability of individual units to be interchangeable. Let's take an example: if I have a...

The Timestamp, key aspect of the Blockchain

12 Oct 2020 3 minute read 2 comments MikeZillo

The Blockchain in addition to recording transactions with many different meanings, it inserts the Timestamp into each validated block. It is simply the date where the block was created and validated. How does the computer deliver this data to the blo...