Author : Matthew Walker TLDR : Sleep enriches our ability to learn and make connections in our brain Sleep helps the long term memory Sleeps permits to make logical decisions Sleep recalibrates our emotions, Sleep enhances muscle/motor memory Sleep restocks our immune system, Sleep fine-tunes our metabolism Sleep regulates our Read more…
New tool to add to our toolkit : Truffle boxes ! “Truffle Boxes are helpful boilerplates that allow you to focus on what makes your DApp unique. In addition to Truffle, Truffle Boxes can contain other helpful modules, Solidity contracts & libraries, front-end views and more; all the way up Read more…
It is a piece of code that lives on the blockchain A self operating computer program that automatically executes whenc ertain conditions are met Smart contracts have an account address, like wallet accounts, they can hold Ether as well, they have their own storage Smart Contract Lifecycle Develop – Write the Read more…
Ethereum is turing complete : Any software that is able to run code written by a developer or executed by an end user. Smart contract : A contract written in code. More specifically, it is an object on the Ethereum blockchain that contains EVM code functions. Will continue running forever. Read more…
What problem will you solve implementing this private Blockchain application? Your employer is trying to make a proof of concept on how a Blockchain application can be implemented in his company. He is an astronomy fan and because of that he spends most of his free time searching stars in Read more…
This lesson is relative to bitcoin and general blockchain concepts. Lesson 1 – Blockchain Basics This are my notes on the Udacity Blockchain developer “nanodegree”. I graduated from an engineering school with a computer science master’s degree. But I was never aiming at becoming a developer. But blockchain is such Read more…
Just kidding, they are called Non-Fungible-Tokens. Alright, I was invited to do a webinar regarding art 2.0 and the impact of blockchain and tokenization on the art world. In my professional activities I am already involved in developing a tokenization engine to tokenize art for institutional clients, which is by Read more…
We are currently quite in an NFT frenzy, everyone is speaking about it and we can only witness the crazy prices at which those non fungible tokens (NFT) are getting sold. This week has seen the entry of crypto.com in the space with their NFT platform and big names publishing Read more…
Author : Andreas Antonopoulos In this book Andreas presents some of the talks he had in various places. The talks are usually articulted around the innovative aspect of Bitcoin and how the technology has the potential to change the world (and face serious resistance from the old guard!). The book Read more…
Author : Shoshana Zuboff The book is very insightful and explains in great details the process used by companies such as Facebook or Google to: Collect as much personal data as possible from unsuspecting users Process the data in vast pipelines Operate predictions to serve the right person with the Read more…