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Are digital art NFT for real?

3 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

Digital Art NFT has been a rage since Beeple sold a digital art NFT for $69 million as Christie's first NFT auction. Let us first understand what NFT is. What is NFT? NFT stands for Non Fungible Token. These are based on an existing blockchain like E...

World's first carbon offset tradeable token

5 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments zoplaska

The Universal Protocol alliance has launched the world's first carbon offset tradeable token on a Ethereum blockchain. The Universal Protocol alliance is a group of well known cryptocurrency players including Bittrex Global, CertiK, Fifth Era, Hard Y...

The USPO files a patent for blockchain based voting system

16 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments zoplaska

Introduction The United States Post office has filed a patent for blockchain based voting system. The patent was filed on Feb 7, 2020 and was published on Aug 13, 2020.  The patent abstract states that, "“A voting system can use the security of block...

EOS Learn and Earn - Staking

18 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

Welcome to my series on EOS Learn and Earn. I have decided to name my experiment as "Learn and Earn" rather than simple "HODL experiment". There was a nice response for my previous post and there were few comments that suggested to also "stake" my EO...

EOS - One year HODL experiment (Part 1)

4 Jan 2020 1 minute read 19 comments zoplaska

A couple of month ago, I seriously started looking into cryptocurrencies as one more investment option for me. I looked into the top ones like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP).  I realized that there are lot more crypto...

Iran gives a thumbs up for cryptocurrency to fight USD dominance

22 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

In the recent Kuala Lumpur summit 2019 between Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Indonesia and Malaysia, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the muslim countries to develop a new financial system for mutual trade which can thwart the US Dollar dominance. He fu...

Paxos Standard (PAX) vs Gemini USD (GUSD)

17 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

While researching different stablecoins, I came across two stablecoins Paxos Standard (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).  The purpose of the post is to look into similarity and differences between these two. Similarities: Both stablecoins are built by com...

Ethereum based game Gods Unchained card sold for 210 ETH

6 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

Introduction Gods Unchained is a competitive turn-based trading card game in which the objective of the game is to defeat your opponent's god by bringing its health to zero. A player can create a deck of 30 cards out of the many number of cards that...

A national cryptocurrency - are we there yet?

4 Dec 2019 3 minute read 0 comments zoplaska

The number for cryptocurrencies have exploded since the launch of Bitcoin. Since the launch of Bitcoin 10 years back, there are now more than 2000 types of cryptocurrencies or tokens. They are all created and maintained by private sector.  For a cryp...