My Sunday Morning Rant — In a past tweet I complained about the resurgence of the doge coin joke Frankly at least when it gets to dogecoin investors, like the GME ones, they know it’s nonsense so the “nonsenseness” is already priced (I hope) so people have no one to blame…

Are you really sure about locking billions of $ in a contract? — April 19th, 2015 was supposed to be a normal day, I checked my messages before heading to work and my heart skipped a beat, here it was Blue on Gray the message that any blockchain developer fears “Nxt crashed. …

Let me start with a bit of a retrospective on the wonderful journey we had at Jelurida for the last 3 years starting from the Ardor mainnet launch. As you know, our business plan and vision around Ardor is to create a single chain “to secure them all” as the…

as indicator to a blockchain project success — This week Ardor dropped out of the top 100 projects on CMC for the first time since I can remember. Except for my bruised ego, what does it mean for the project? Let’s put it upfront, the CMC ranking is important, the higher you are in the ranking, the better…

The cryptography behind the Ardor HD wallet implementation — We at the Jelurida R&D lab wanted to implement HD wallet for Ardor for a long time. However, for a while, we were missing the basic building blocks and the knowledge necessary to develop this feature. Especially since we wanted to make sure not to “role our own cryptography” as…

Derive multiple account addresses from a single seed — Anyone who is already familiar with Bitcoin wallets, be it hardware or software, knows that the first step in initializing a wallet involves the creation of a seed of 12 to 24 random words (also called mnemonic). In most cases the mnemonic is created based on a standard dictionary defined…

After a busy month during November where the Jelurida team attended the Singapore fintech week, The Capital and Blockshow conferences and many more, followed by a workshop with Casino Austria International, where we explored together blockchain applications for the gambling industry, I would like to share some of my…

I attended “The Bitcoin Edge” conference followed by “Scaling Bitcoin” this week. This was my first time attending a bitcoin developers conference. As you probably are aware, I’m very interested in blockchain scaling and privacy solutions. …

Traditional Internet Privacy vs. Blockchain based Privacy — Our current definition of privacy over the internet when submitting information to a shopping, banking or insurance website goes something like this: Submitted data is private in the sense that my aunt, my boss, my neighbor, the competitor of the website, and most ordinary people cannot easily access it. However…