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18 Mar 2021 8 minute read 10 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Rohit and I have always been fascinated by the world of cryptocurrency trading, often wondering how our lives would shape out if we seriously considered trading as a vocation. - What are the tools or platforms we would use? - Would we require 3-4 sc...
14 Feb 2021 8 minute read 10 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Ever watched Ready Player One and wondered what it would be like to have the same thing in real life (well you know what we mean)? Play around a virtual casino, explore online megastructures, party at a metaverse club, race digital collectible cars w...
14 Dec 2020 6 minute read 2 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
In all my discussions and brainstorming sessions about crypto with others, I keep going back and forth on one particular aspect – reliable reading resources on various topics. Whenever something new comes up, the first thing on my mind is where to le...
22 Nov 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Saurabh
As Donald Trump becomes the 11th president to not have won reelection, the world will see Joe Biden be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. On the inauguration day in January 2021, Joe Biden would become the oldest person ever to take...
9 Nov 2020 5 minute read 1 comment Saurabh
In a blockchain governed system all the transactions have to be recorded on a distributed ledger, the copy of which is carried by all the participating nodes. Miners or the validating nodes authenticate the transactions and record them on the global...
8 Oct 2020 5 minute read 4 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
The onset of Web 3.0 has been marked by a flurry of decentralised apps (or dApps in short) making their way into our daily lives. dApps take the modular approach to applications and combine it with a non-centralised management structure. In a world,...
1 Sep 2020 9 minute read 8 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
About two and a half years back, Rohit and I reconnected over our mutual interest in cryptocurrencies after almost a decade of lost contact. As we discussed various technologies and related topics which intrigued us in crypto, a recurring theme was “...
12 Jun 2020 11 minute read 11 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Public blockchains involve active participants (miners, validators, node operators etc.) to contribute towards the common goal of strengthening the network and confirming transactions through some sort of distributed consensus algorithm. In simple te...
11 Mar 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
Emails continue to be the most popular form of business communication ever since their introduction more than 30 years ago. Email clients are free to use and the original protocol (SMTP) has few checks and balances to prevent malicious action such as...
3 Mar 2020 9 minute read 21 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
The overarching trend that marked the beginning of 2020 has been fear and uncertainty driven by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in China, devastating bushfires in Australia, US-Iran brinkmanship, widespread citizen protests in various nations...
