The B.C.U. Times

The B.C.U. Times

The B.C.U. Times - blog about promoting the blockchain and cryptoasset user experience and ecosystem.


Pawedcast in Print Episode #50: The Tweaks

22 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman

Bullet Points Reminder: there was no episode last week because there wasn't enough content to cover in a podcast. Cuthos info should drop soon. 100,000th cutie on Ethereum was recently born. More quality of life changes, including bug fixes. The goal...

Pawedcast in Print Episode #49

9 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman

Bullet Points NEO blockchain should be live soon. Improvement to quality of life (UI and UX) as well as game play, such as changes to how raids work and making it harder for whales to dominate. Lots of feedback from the community about desired featur...

BAT, Brave, and publish0x

8 Aug 2019 2 minute read 5 comments Daniel Goldman

If you're new to publishx, tipping is a core idea behind the platform. Instead of traditional ads, publish0x is, or at least will be, funded through sponsors that provide tokens in exchange for having their project described when a tip in their token...

Gamifying ICOs: Moving beyond traditional ICOs to improve health of the released cryptoasset, and protecting against regulatory headaches

6 Aug 2019 3 minute read 1 comment Daniel Goldman

Typically ICOs are just sales. A certain amount of funds are taken in, and a certain number of coins are given out. The typical ICO is, after all, modeled on IPOs: initial public offerings of stocks. The tokens are used to fund a project, and general...

Developing a Faucet for World Coin: Front End Work

1 Aug 2019 6 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman

This is the second half of my article on developing my faucet "game" and the third article on my WorldCoin project. It's been an interesting experience, and I admit that I'm kind of rushing things, but I think it's turning out pretty well. Here are m...

Developing a Faucet for WorldCoin: Backend Work

1 Aug 2019 4 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman

Since I created WorldCoin, I wanted a way to get it distributed to the general population. Tipping is going to be used to an extent, but I want people to start interacting with the token as much as possible from the very beginning. I thought a faucet...

I Have a Token. Am I Rich Now?

31 Jul 2019 4 minute read 9 comments Daniel Goldman

Introduction I've been working on a project for a little while now. It's called World Builder. It started as a reaction to the horrible, and yet somehow successful gambling games that seem to pervade Tron. In fact, the specific game that spurre...

Crypto & KYC: A crypto based alternative to government issued documents as a form of identifying a customer.

30 Jul 2019 3 minute read 4 comments Daniel Goldman

KYC or “know your customer” is a process of verifying the identity of a user before they are able to fully use a platform. Exchanges are generally required to obtain proof of identity in order to allow a user to access the exchange, especially when f...

Getting Into Splinterlands: A digital collectible card game with a number of interesting mechanics

29 Jul 2019 4 minute read 11 comments Daniel Goldman

Collectible card games have been around for many years. There's Magic The Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Force of Will, and many others. There are millions of players world-wide, and people spend a lot of money on these pieces of cardboard. I've pers...

Technical Analysis of BELA

29 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman

I don't do all that much technical analysis. I'm mostly a fan of fundamental analysis, though there is an association between the two and technical analysis can be useful when trading, or even determining whether it's time to buy or sell a specific t...