Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin?

Posted by wsieroci on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:41PM
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Hi,

I am wondering if there is scalable cryptocurrency (maybe with smart contracts feature) having typical "blockchain" properties of trust?

Best, Wiktor

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by companyhen on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:38PM (#16086389)

http://Nebulas.io

Uses something called "nebulas force (NF)" which is a self-evolving blockchain (no hard forks). Created by co-founder of NEO, he started the project in 2016 and went to work on it full time early 2017 after implementing a blockchain at Ant Financial (alibaba).

The testnet is out now and the mainnet is launching by end of Q1.

https://nebulas.io/docs/NebulasTechnicalWhitepaper.pdf

Very interesting project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFB1b1hopmc

^ Interview with founder of Nebulas

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by CryoLogic on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:06PM (#16093286)

IOTA is probably your best bet, although it is still in development.

HN loves to hate on it (probably because their funds are elsewhere), but if you read through the whitepapers and the Github I think it is probably the one of the most promising cryptos for actual real-world use.

Raiblocks would be my next guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by ecesena on Friday January 05, 2018 @08:41PM (#16083330)

To my knowledge today the 2 best things are ripple and raiden on ethereum.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by factorialboy on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:54AM (#16084335)

I think the recent "crypto kitties" issues highlighted some of the scaling concerns of the Ethereum "virtual machine".

Ripple is centralized and can be argued is not even a blockchain.

Litecoin is fast AF but its the "younger sibling" of Bitcoin.

One to keep an eye on in 2018 in Cardano here's the introductory whiteboard talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9D0kpksxw

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by wsieroci on Saturday January 06, 2018 @05:02AM (#16084626)

Thanks! Seems interesting

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by gesman on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:07PM (#16086894)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by miguelrochefort on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:42AM (#16085686)

- RaiBlocks

- IOTA

- Hashgraph

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any scalable “blockchain”/cryptocoin? by boysabr3 on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:50AM (#16086041)

The raiblocks White paper does an excellent job explaining why it (and other DAGs) are scalable: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...

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