Blockchain Stories that Inspired YOU During Crypto Winter

Hey, Utsav Jaiswal here, Hacker Noon’s new(-ish) blockchain editor.

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Now that all signs point towards a thawing crypto-winter, Hacker Noon takes a look back at Blockchain stories that kept peoples’ faith intact in Decentralized Ledger Technologies. What began as “corrections due to the Chinese New Year” in early 2018 quickly snowballed into a full-blown rout of major cryptocurrencies as the year progressed. While STOs (Security Token Offerings) blunted the crypto-winter a bit, the resurgence of interest in Blockchain products came with the emergence of IEOs (Initial Exchange Offerings).

With Blockchain products back to raising their hard caps in under 30 minutes, crypto-winter is finally over. At this juncture, we take a look back at the Blockchain articles that kept the readers hopeful in the underlining technology in those lower market cap times.

Why Blockchain?

• Blockchains Should not be Democracies [10 min read] by Haseeb Qureshi — came at a time when Blockchain Governance was a contentious issue. While it can be argued that it still is a contentious issue, the dust seems to be settling now. The article explains how Blockchains are more than just ledgers and how they are an eventuality.
• Every Company will use Blockchain by 2027 [8 min read] by Mohit Mamoria — is a thought-provoking take on the future of businesses with monumental examples from the history of money, enterprise, and payments.
• Stablecoins in 2019 (Are we are not there yet ?) [9 min read] by Anton Mozgovoy — puts forth ample arguments that stablecoins are the hybridized offsprings of FIAT currencies and intrinsic-value currencies such as gold.

What’s in a Blockchain?

• The Innards of an ERC20 Token [4 min read] by Winfred K. Mandela — talks about the inner workings of the most famous token standard of all time — the ERC20 and why it received much love from the developer communities across the world.
• The State Of The DAOs [18 min read] by Vu Gaba Vineb — takes the reader to the ‘Promised Land’ of Blockchain maximalists — The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). It explains how for the first time humans have the means to coordinate in a trustless and anonymous way to make collective decisions for a certain cause.
• Blockchain as the Next Evolutionary Step of the Open Source Movement [8 min read] by Tal Kol — is a fantastic piece on the limitations faced by the Open Source Movement and shows how Blockchain Technologies can be the next vehicle to unlock a whole new side of potential for copy-left software.

Who Needs Blockchain?

• Top Green Mining Crypto Projects [14 min read] by Eric Bal — takes a deep hard look into Blockchain solutions that are tackling the issue of enormous energy consumption by cryptocurrency mining rigs.
• Combining Blockchain and File Storage Might Just Decentralize the Internet [16 min read] by Eric Wang — describes the emergence and potential impact of file storage systems based on blockchain technology as a promising alternative to both centralized storage and non-incentivized P2P file systems.
• Blockchain And Enterprise-A Match Made In Heaven [8 min read] by Romi Kumar — is an insightful piece that takes the questions of Blockchain scalability head-on. It examines the existing and upcoming business Blockchains that are built with the sole purpose of ending the doubts regarding Blockchains’ scalability.

Where is the Money?

• The ICO to STO Evolution is Complete. So, What’s the Difference? [7 min read] by Andrey Sergeenkov — chronicles the journey of fundraising by Blockchain companies and compares the various strategies that emerged between the drying up of ICOs and the emergence of STOs.
• How To Launch Your IEO: Guide For Projects + List of Exchanges [8 min read] by Sergey Baloyan — is a comprehensive piece on the spoken and unspoken rules of conducting an IEO. Simply put, these are ICOs in which one or another exchange acts as a guarantor and venue.
• Who Says ICOs are Dead? It’s Not Dead, It’s Evolving. [5 min read] by Han Yoon — talks about the two biggest concerns for retail investors, solved by IEOs right off the bat. They know exactly when the token will start trading, and where it will be trading.

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