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paragism

My thoughts on various topics


Understanding Trustless & Uncensored DAI

24 Apr 2020 4 minute read 0 comments paragism

There is no doubt that cryptocurrency is gaining mainstream adoption day by day but price volatility of cryptocurrency has been a great challenge. It is understood that the price discovery mechanism of cryptocurrency is still in nascent stage but the...

Why Web 3 should be blockchain based to ensure free speech!

17 Apr 2020 4 minute read 4 comments paragism

Cover Image Source After 9/11 attack, George Bush said “you are either with us or against us”. Mr. Bush was talking about terrorism. Similar phrases with different variations are often used in different political environments and these simply put a d...

ProximaX (XPX) - Good to Invest?

14 Apr 2020 4 minute read 0 comments paragism

  What is ProximaX? ProximaX was launched as a NEM blockchain based next-generation Integrated and Distributed Ledger Technology (IaDLT) infrastructure platform. The project was cofounded by Mr. Lon Wong, the first president of NEM foundation & Mr. A...

Surveillance Capitalism and the Internet Era – Why We Need Brave! Final Part

10 Apr 2020 4 minute read 9 comments paragism

Cover Image Source - Altered by the author Surveillance capitalism is about commodification of personal information. Social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff coined the term. Capitalism is fundamentally aggressive in nature and aggressive capitalism has s...

Justin Sun just planned massive freezing of user assets on the Steem blockchain

4 Apr 2020 2 minute read 10 comments paragism

Cover Image Source - Created by the author using free vectors Steem hard fork took place on 20th March, 2020 and generated Hive blockchain. Hive is basically a copy of Steem blockchain with minor changes. So, it was basically a chain split. Majority...

Did you miss Tether's recent velocity?

1 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments paragism

Cover Image - Created by the author using free vectors In the recent cryptocurrency market crash of March’20, Bitcoin price dropped to the level of $4000 in several exchanges. Bitcoin bounced back to the level of $6000-6500. Market is bearish but sta...

Steem community moved to HIVE! Way forward now?

30 Mar 2020 4 minute read 2 comments paragism

Cover Image – Made by the author using free vectors “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth”- Robert Frost in The...

I test positive for Bitcoin

27 Mar 2020 3 minute read 6 comments paragism

Cover Image Source – Digitally modified by the author “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford Bitc...

Steemit starts to censor contents and downvote its own users with 29 million Steem Power!

22 Mar 2020 2 minute read 18 comments paragism

Cover Image Source - imgflip meme site. It features part screenshot of Justin Sun's original abusive post in Steemit addressing the members of the community. The post was deleted later but it still exists in the immutable Steem blockchain Steem hard...

Fork it the hard way! Steem hard fork announced

18 Mar 2020 2 minute read 16 comments paragism

Chinese entrepreneur and Tron founder Justin Sun did acquisition of Steemit in February’20 and immediately announced that Steem would be existing as Tron token and the whole dapp eco-system of Steem blockchain would be moved to Tron blockchain. As St...