On the Subject of Nodes
One of the great debates in blockchain centers around what it means to be decentralized, whether it’s a necessary trait for the application you’re developing, and how a blockchain’s centralization should affect the regulatory status of the cryptoasset(s) running on top of it. While many followers of the blockchain space would identify as decentralization ‘maximalists,’ […]
Five Problems Kin Needs to Solve to Become the Most Used Cryptocurrency by EoY
The Kin Foundation set the lofty goal of “becoming the most used Cryptocurrency by End of Year” in 2018. Depending on their measure of success, they’ve either got a long way to go, or an incredibly long way to go. There are also some key problems that stand in their way that will need to […]
What Critics Have Right About Kin
Recently, we published our 5 part series on “What Critics Fail to Understand About Kin.” While we firmly believe that there is a lot of unfair criticism about Kin, there are also many points that critics got right. At the end of the day, successful projects are often successful not because of the things they […]
What Critics Fail to Understand About Kin – Part #4
Missed the rest of the series? Check out “Part #1” “Part #2” and “Part #3” In their July 17th article covering the launch of the Kinit beta app on Android, CCN author Jake Sylvestre wrote that during his interview with Kin’s VP of Communications, Rod McLeod, he had concerns over the existence of a business model […]