It is finally time for the 2018 Decred roadmap to be released. 2017 has been quite an eventful year for both Decred and the entire cryptocurrency domain, with exchange rates surging and a substantial increase in interest from the conventional finance sector. Decred has continued with its approach of generating deliverables before hyping them...
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This article explains the details of how to become a Decred contractor. One of the most important questions is: why would you like to work with Decred?
The 8th February 2018 will mark two years since the Decred mainnet launched. Over the last 12 months the project has continued to make monumental progress towards developing the first truly decentralized cryptocurrency that is open, scalable, private, self-funded and autonomous.
Recently Google disclosed a new class of vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. Folks in the Decred community have been asking questions about the implications of these bugs for Decred. This post delineates implications of these exploits and possible countermeasures. These bugs are akin to traders issuing cancels without back pressure to manipulate the market.
Decred is a hybrid Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency that offers many benefits over a pure PoW or PoS blockchain.
Yet again, it?s been another busy few months for Decred! In the wake of the Atomic Swap release we?ve had several new developers jump aboard, three new exchange listings, a growing presence at conferences and events, and a new Decred community YouTube show.
In late 2015 a group of Bitcoin developers proposed a solution to the governance crisis plaguing the Bitcoin network. As the creators of btcsuite - an alternative full node implementation of Bitcoin written in Go - they had first-hand experience of the problem.
Rather than settling for governance infrastructure that is just good enough to get the job done, we opted to create what we consider to be the ideal infrastructure for self-governance of a cryptocurrency. We call our system for storing governance data Politeia, which is based on the ancient Greek term, meaning ?a system of government?.
So, you know that Decred aims to take decentralization to a whole new level, right? We?re talking a decentralized cryptocurrency with decentralized decision-making, decentralized funding, and decentralized development. Just when you thought the future of Decred couldn?t get any more decentralized, the release of a new tool has taken the concept one step further!
This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v1.0.7 release on August 18th, 2017.
As many of you know, yesterday marked the first cross-chain atomic swap between Decred and Litecoin. This is an important step in a direction that allows users to conduct trustless, cross-chain, over-the-counter (?OTC?) trades without a third party.
Over the last few months we have seen a steady rise in demand for Decred right across the board. We?ve had a big increase in the number of people joining our community on all social networks, hash rate is booming, and relative to inflation the circulating supply of Decred is dropping!
Over the past several months, we have seen Decred contractors grow from a group of 10 to a group of over 25 individuals.
In this story we uncover the cypherpunk roots of the Decred Project. Many within the Decred community assumed that the current project organizer, Jake Yocom-Piatt, founded Decred right from the start. However, after doing a little digging, it appears this isn’t the case.
I was one of the people fortunate enough to be around for Decred?s airdrop. This means that I was given a share of their currency in the very beginning stages just for believing in them.